The 20th century looms large in this selection of five new historical novels. Momentous events — the sinking of the Titanic, life after World War I, the Hollywood blacklists — shape the lives ...

W.E.B. Du Bois (Charles Reuben) has high hopes for his protégé poet Countee Cullen (Cameron Holder) in “Knock Me a Kiss” at M Ensemble at the Sandrell Rivers Theater through Sunday, April 27.

What’s it’s about: This novel follows Jessie Redmon Fauset, a high school teacher from Washington, D.C., ... including Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and Nella Larsen. ...

This novel explores the life of the “midwife” of the Harlem Renaissance, Jessie Redmon Fauset, literary editor of the NAAACP’s The Crisis magazine and mentor to writers like Countee Cullen ...

Determined to prove herself, Jessie throws herself into helping “The Crisis” thrive by scouting writers who would someday become literary icons, including Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and ...

If you’ve walked around campus lately, you may have noticed several posters or events celebrating Zora Neale Hurston, BC 1928. If you are not familiar with who she was, Spectrum is here to inform you ...

The book, out Tuesday, is a fictionalization of the lives of many of the Harlem Renaissance’s key figures, including Hughes, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the woman credited as the whole ...

Raised in relative poverty by his mother and his stepfather, a Baptist minister, Baldwin credited his school French teacher, the Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, as an early literary mentor.

20th Television has hired Jillian Longnecker as executive vice president of production and Brendan Countee as head of comedy development. In their new roles at 20th TV, which is part of Disney ...

20th Television has hired former Netflix executive Jillian Longnecker as EVP and Head of Production and Showtime’s Brendan Countee as SVP and Head of Comedy Development for the studio, a part of ...

20th Television has made two new executive appointments in Jillian Longnecker and Brendan Countee. Longnecker, who previously served as Netflix’s senior director of original series production, ...