“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 ...
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 ...
*More than half a century after filmmaker William Greaves gathered surviving Harlem Renaissance luminaries for an ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 -- ...
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 ...