“Kevin Powell is just an amazing guy with a great documentary and a down-to-earth way to talk about so many things in our world today,” said Michael Carter, the senior advisor to the president at ...

This year’s observance of Black History Month carries forward the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance ... into universal truth. When Ralph Ellison wrote on invisibility, he wasn ...

Tucked into a quiet corner of Upper Manhattan is one of Harlem’s last informal jazz parlors ... Hamilton’s Bar & Kitchen on Friday nights and the Ralph Ellison Memorial on Sundays during the summer, ...

“Looking for Langston,” the 1989 film and art installation by Isaac Julien, reevaluated gay and lesbian contributions to the Harlem Renaissance ... Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison all ...

“Invisible Man” follows an unnamed narrator as he grows up and takes part in the Harlem Renaissance. In this and other works, author and literary critic Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) explores ...

The semi autobiographical story is centered around John Grimes, a teenager struggling with his identity and sexuality as the stepson of a Pentecostal minister in 1930s Harlem. Originally published ...

(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was a leading Harlem Renaissance figure ... a famous African-American writer. Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) was a Black author ...

But that alienation—the flip side of modernism—is missing from Murrell’s take on the Harlem Renaissance ... “The Block” brings to mind Ralph Ellison’s complicated but necessary ...

“Invisible Man,” which won a National Book Award and established Ellison as a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, inspired this Ralph Ellison memorial. Ellison wrote in a letter in 1985 that he ...