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Music And Poetry Of The Harlem Renaissance This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

This week Riverwalk Jazz captures the high spirit of the Harlem Renaissance with a program combining the music of Duke Ellington,Eubie Blake, Fats Waller and James P. Johnson with the poetry of ...

These Harlem Renaissance Visionaries Walked So We Could Run, And They Deserve Way More Credit Than They Get

In honor of this game-changing and often-forgotten moment in history, get to know some of the Harlem Renaissance pioneers you ...

15 Books, Movies, And Songs You Can Listen To That Highlight The Harlem Renaissance

Complemented by photographs, prints, and books, this installation explores how image-makers of different identities and ...
The Grio

The Met’s ‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ honors America’s Black mecca

A stone’s throw from Harlem, on the stately campus of Columbia Journalism School, a two-day conference took place recently celebrating the legacy of hip-hop journalism. With panel discussions, ...
The Virginian-Pilot

This Lynchburg poet’s home served as an outpost of the Harlem Renaissance

Photographs on the staircase wall inside the Anne Spencer House in Lynchburg show some of its famous visitors: poet Langston Hughes, Justice Thurgood Marshall, inventor George Washington Carver, and ...
WLRN

‘A canvas for black artistry’: Miami exhibit celebrates Harlem Renaissance literature and art

Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!
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Harlem Renaissance Literature Collection

This collection, which dates from circa 1901-1940, contains 37 books from African-American authors associated with the Harlem Renaissance. These materials were purchased in support of the exhibit "The ...
Columbia Daily Spectator

The Classical Theatre of Harlem celebrates 25th anniversary and 100 years of the Harlem Renaissance

With the Cathedral of St. John the Divine as the backdrop, the future of Harlem’s cultural legacy gathered for a night of conversation. The Classical Theatre of Harlem hosted “Renaissance Reborn: ...
MPR News

A rare U.S. premiere brings Harlem Renaissance poetry to sacred music

More than 100 singers fill the stage as the VocalEssence Chorus performs its annual holiday concert at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Auditorium, an experience many members say is as much ...
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The Harlem renaissance remembered essays, edited, with a memoir by Arna Bontemps

The awakening : a memoir / Arna Bontemps -- Patterns of the Harlem Renaissance / George E. Kent -- Jean Toomer : as modern man / Larry E. Thompson -- Under the Harlem shadow : a study of Jessie Fauset ...
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The Met’s ‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ honors America’s Black mecca

Pop culture critic Miles Marshall Lewis explores the throughline from the Harlem Renaissance to hip-hop in The Met’s new exhibition. A stone’s throw from Harlem, on the stately campus of Columbia ...