Alain Locke never lived in Harlem. He was not an artist or editor. But in 1925, the Harvard graduate and the first Black Rhodes scholar in 1907, conceived a work that would capture one of the most ...

Isaac Julien has a history of working with the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance. So it makes sense that his latest commission, for Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation, circled back on writer, philosopher ...

Pop culture critic Miles Marshall Lewis explores the throughline from the Harlem Renaissance to hip-hop in The Met’s new exhibition. A stone’s throw from Harlem, on the stately campus of Columbia ...

The city and the era picked up the moniker “Harlem Renaissance.” For Blacks, the 1920s were more a beginning than a renaissance. Nothing like it had ever come to urban America. Jazz and blues, ...

Jeffrey Stewart was a graduate student when he first encountered Alain Locke. College students discover and forget historical figures every day, but something about Locke intrigued Stewart, today a ...

After winnning a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize for his 2018 biography of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart continues his study of the groundbreaking Howard University scholar as the editor of ...

Guest: Jeffrey C. Stewart, Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his ...

Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...

AAPG copy Purchased from the Arts Libraries Endowment. Section I. The Education of Alain Locke -- 1. A Death and a Birth -- 2. A Black Victorian Childhood -- 3. Child God and Black Aesthete -- 4. An ...