After seven years and $160 million, the museum has an uplifting home on a street that has always been a barometer of Harlem’s ...

The Metropolitan Museum's new Harlem Renaissance exhibit presents the Twentieth Century movement as a central force in modern art, a bold reframing that many view as long overdue. The Barron's news ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New York Historical’s exhibition “The Gay Harlem Renaissance" is an overdue exploration of Early 20th-century Black ...

A Harlem playwright unearths the extraordinary pasts of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents. As a teen, Alaudin Ullah was swept up by the energy of hip-hop and rebelled against his Bangladeshi roots.

Part I: Coming of age on the brink of the twentieth century. "To hustle while you're waiting" ; "A gilded, but gritty age" -- Part II: Twentieth century unlimited. "If we cannot go forward, let us ...

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 ...

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 ...

Balcony, Toulon (1929) mocks bourgeois superficiality, while Minuit Chanson (1931) celebrates the diversity of Parisian ...