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Bringing Jessie R. Fauset to life in 'Harlem Rhapsody'
Victoria Christopher Murray's new historical novel, "Harlem Rhapsody," is a love letter to Harlem in the early 1920s and to ...
‘The Personal Librarian’ author tackles 1920s New York in ‘Harlem Rhapsody’
Victoria Christopher, co-author of "The Personal Librarian," turns to Langston Hughes and other lights of the Harlem ...
Texarkana Gazette13h
'As Black as it was Gay': A&M-Texarkana opens Harlem Renaissance history exhibit
A variety of people were present for the opening day of a new historical exhibit at Texas A&M University-Texarkana on Tuesday ...
The MetroWest Daily News2d
Framingham's Fuller School is named for this prominent 20th century Black couple
Framingham's Fuller Middle School is named for a 20th century Black couple who were prominent in their respective fields ...
BroadwayWorld8d
Renee Flemings' AUGUSTA! to be Presented at WP Theater as Part of Ancestral Voices Solo Festival
Renee Flemings will celebrate the life, art and victories of Harlem Renaissance-era sculptor, activist and arts educator ...
Atlanta Magazine9d
The Adeboyé brothers explore an experimental theater project that lit up Atlanta 40 years ago
A pop-up before pop-ups were cool, Club Zebra featured live readings, music performances, poetry, dance, and everything in ...
The SandPaper2d
Hear Stories of the Great Migration
When African Americans left the rural South for the northern and western United States, what rituals and rations sustained ...
No education, no inspiration: We must keep learning Black history to combat racism | Opinion
Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...
Smithsonian Magazine20d
Why Was Zora Neale Hurston So Obsessed With the Biblical Villain Herod the Great?
The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...
The Washington Post26d
Zora Neale Hurston’s final work, saved from a fire, is a flawed gem
In the 1920s and ’30s, Zora Neale Hurston was the sharp-witted belle of the Harlem Renaissance ... and small-town Black secular and religious life. But 30 years later, Hurston was impoverished ...
Josephine Baker Published Her Memoir in the 1940s. Now, It Arrives in the U.S. for the First Time
In 1926, Josephine Baker was approached by French journalist Marcel Sauvage about writing a memoir. Then 20 years old, the stage and screen performer thought it was a hilarious prospect, until she ...