Today on Commotion, culture critic and New Yorker Jay Smooth joins host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss the documentary, and ...
The Harlem renaissance at the turn of the 20th century was celebrated for a flowering of African American arts, writing and music. The same era produced fabulous architecture, from houses and churches ...
“We younger black artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We ...
During Prohibition, between 1920 and 1933, when there was a nationwide ban on the manufacturing and sale of alcoholic beverages, thousands of formerly legal bars and saloons were closed. These ...
All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Harlem in the 1920s and '30s offered the Black creative class a sense of pride and possibility. It also had ...
Introduction -- Part I. Debating what and how Harlem students learn in the Renaissance and beyond -- Schooling the new Negro: progressive education, black modernity, and the long Harlem Renaissance -- ...
In its latest exhibition, the New York Historical turns its attention to the Black LGBTQ history that surrounds Harlem. The exhibition, titled “The Gay Harlem Renaissance”, celebrates the centennial ...
A riot of images: Harlem and the pursuit of modernity -- Documenting Harlem: images and afterlives -- From Black voices to Black power: Richard Wright and the trial of documentary -- Ralph Ellison, ...
NEW HOPE, Pa. - "That's what would always make me recognize her. She's always embracing, has someone embracing," said Mary Flamer of the Phillips' Mill Community Association. Selma Burke was a key ...
NPR's Juan Williams talks about how Harlem is changing, with two men who have long associations with that traditionally black Manhattan neighborhood: Michael Meyers, who heads the New York Civil ...
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