“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 ...

More than half a century after 16mm cameras captured a legendary gathering inside Duke Ellington's home, a lost monument of Black history is returning home to its cultural epicenter.

Sometimes it’s the sleepers that stay with you. In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still life by ...

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 film drops in on a party in 1972, when key figures of the Harlem Renaissance reunited for an evening at Duke Ellington's ...

In the dazzling archival documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem, a 1972 cocktail party brings together various creative luminaries as they discuss and debate ...

Begining in the early 20th century, artists of the Harlem Renaissance produced groundbreaking works that celebrated Black culture and captured everyday life. Soon, more than 150 of those pieces will ...

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 ...

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 ...