The Cotton Club in Harlem was once considered the epicenter of African American entertainment, boasting performances from the likes of Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald. The soulful sound shaped ...

A'Lelia Bundles, author of "Joy Goddess" and ancestor to 1st Black female self-made millionaires in America, will talk ...

The Harlem Renaissance's nightlife was legendary for venues like The Cotton Club, where guests enjoyed drinks and performances by chorus girls. The Cotton Club in Harlem around 1920.

Not overly concerned with plot or story, the show takes place in and around the Cotton Club during its heyday in the 1920s and ‘30s.

intends to re-create the Harlem Renaissance, the Harlem-based flowering of African-American artistic and cultural achievement that took place in the 1920s. While the intent of the Ensemble Theatre ...

Highlights the lifestyle and experiences of five jazz performers who appeared in the Cotton Club shows during the Harlem renaissance era, including Avon Long, Cab Calloway, Estrellita, the ...

Harlem was synonymous with the arts. But what I didn’t know was how that had come to be. By Veronica Chambers This article is also a weekly newsletter. Sign up for Race/Related here. As a kid ...