Victoria Christopher Murray's new historical novel, "Harlem Rhapsody," is a love letter to Harlem in the early 1920s and to ...

The New World Symphony launched “I Dream a World” in 2022 serves also as a platform to encourage dialogue about the enduring ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

Bessie Coleman was an ambitious young woman, inspired by Black pilots in World War I. Her accomplishments inspired ...

Renee Flemings will celebrate the life, art and victories of Harlem Renaissance-era sculptor, activist and arts educator ...

In the 1920s, the organ played a role in a celebration of Black achievement. With the teaching of that history now under ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

One of Hughes’ most famous works is “The Negro Speaks of ... Hughes moved to Harlem, New York, in Nov. 1924, where he became a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, social, and ...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...