politics and culture in black America. 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 ...

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.

The Harlem Renaissance had profound implications for the social, cultural, and intellectual life of Black people. Black artists developed poetry, novels, music, and fine art that challenged the ...

When we think about the Harlem Renaissance, we usually think about it as a literary movement, writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. But the Black cultural revival that spanned from ...

The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and artistic movement that thrived during the 1920s, was a remarkable period in American history. It was a time when African-American art, literature ...

A new biography of A’Lelia Walker—the daughter of beauty mogul Madam C. J. Walker—reveals how her role as one of her era's ...

The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age of Black culture. An iconic period of our history, the time between 1920 and 1937 gave birth to Black literature, art, fashion and music that left a lasting ...

This is an important takeaway from this innovative book. The author documents the direct impact of the queer Harlem Renaissance on today's queer culture, and Black queer culture today. Indeed, Black ...