When the call rings out — “Back talk!” — the crowd answers in unison: “Talk back!” The room hums before the first word is ...
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 ...
In honor of this game-changing and often-forgotten moment in history, get to know some of the Harlem Renaissance pioneers you ...
Complemented by photographs, prints, and books, this installation explores how image-makers of different identities and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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!
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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, ...