Henry Minton opened what would become an historic landmark in the story of Black music and culture -- now, after nearly a ...

The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

Victoria Christopher Murray's new historical novel, "Harlem Rhapsody," is a love letter to Harlem in the early 1920s and to ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

the Howard University professor whose anthology “The New Negro” declared the philosophical basis of what is now called “The Harlem Renaissance.” Hughes and Locke were portrayed by the ...

A variety of people were present for the opening day of a new historical exhibit at Texas A&M University-Texarkana on Tuesday ...

African Americans from across the country flooded New York City’s Harlem, leading to an explosion of books, poetry and music that is now collectively known as the Harlem Renaissance. A ...

Veteran author Victoria Christopher Murray returns with her first solo work of historical fiction, “Harlem Rhapsody.” ...

Now he’s considered the foremost artist of the Harlem Renaissance – a pioneer who ... illustrations to Alain Locke’s ‘The New Negro.’ He was the only African-American artist to be ...