The Voice of Harlem Radicalism,” brings to life one of the most important and influential –but forgotten— figures in early 20th Century Black America. In this first of a two-volume biography; Perry ...
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 ...
James Van Der Zee, Person in Fur-Trimmed Ensemble, 1926. © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY At a time when ...
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 ...
From prophecy to preservation : Harlem as temporal vector / Andrew M. Fearnley -- Class, gender, and community in "Harlem sketches" : representing black urban modernity in interwar African American ...