The Harlem Renaissance — known then as the "New Negro Movement" — saw the rise of jazz, the launch of such literary careers as Langston Hughes' and Zora Neale Hurston's, and a new sense of ...

“The Harlem Renaissance is both mythology and history ... “Quicksand” by Nella Larsen, “The New Negro” by Alain LeRoy Locke, “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes, “Their ...

Harlem was pronounced the “Mecca of the New Negro” 99 years ago. That cultural renaissance is as far from us today as the contributors to that Survey Graphic issue were from the presidency of ...

The Harlem Renaissance is the beginning of the modern ... who wrote in his 1925 landmark book, "The New Negro": "Art must discover and reveal the beauty, which prejudice and caricature have ...

Alain Locke, the chief theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, identified Harlem as the home of the New Negro, the Black man or woman liberated from stereotypes, shaping their own life as they shaped ...

Titled “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism ... Some works will explore "the New Negro era’s fraught approach to social issues including queer identity, colorism and class ...

Alain Locke is remembered as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance largely for assembling “The New Negro,” a 1925 anthology that immortalized a small group of young writers—Langston Hughes ...

The Upper Manhattan neighborhood was the birthplace and namesake of the Harlem Renaissance ... of Negro Dance.” The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976 and a New ...

Now she’s taking up the challenge set by Alain Locke, a trailblazing critic during the Harlem Renaissance whose 1925 essay “The New Negro” became a touchstone for Black aesthetics.

The Harlem Renaissance is the beginning of the modern ... who wrote in his 1925 landmark book, "The New Negro": "Art must discover and reveal the beauty, which prejudice and caricature have ...