As an heiress and accomplished marketer of Madam C.J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, A’Lelia Walker hosted rising stars of ...

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 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 role of music is significantly emphasised when considering the sociocultural development of the Black Community against the backdrop of important historical events. If music has had such a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...