It's the time of year in Jacksonville for Juneteenth events, dance recitals and season finales. Here are 100-plus fun things ...

In Brazzaville, they appear like apparitions. A plume of dust lifts as they walk—one in a double-breasted canary-yellow suit, ...

Discover the inspiring journey of actor and artivist Robert Hooks, the 2025 Helen Hayes Tribute awardee, and his dedication ...

The Original Harlem ... the new name simply to capitalize on the importance of the Upper Manhattan communities of Harlem in African American culture, and in particular on the Harlem Renaissance.

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why it still matters.

I thought about New York. I thought about the time period, and that got me to the Harlem Renaissance ... reading one of his early poems, "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

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 Neale Hurston's, and a new sense of ...

Native Son: The Harlem Renaissance was a vibrant ... perfect for today because when I think about Alaine Locke and The New Negro, it was the African American Bible. And so we’re almost a ...

Harlem was pronounced the “Mecca of the New Negro” 99 years ago. That cultural renaissance is as far from us today as the contributors to that Survey Graphic issue were from the presidency of ...

Today, we refer to that era as the Harlem Renaissance. At the time, author Alain Locke dubbed it as The New Negro Movement. Art collector Chris Norwood at the Hampton Art Lovers gallery at the ...