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!

In a new exhibit “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York explores how the Great Migration fueled an explosion of creativity in art and music ...

The New Negro Movement was a celebration of culture across the African diaspora in the early decades of the 20th century. In the U.S., the period was marked by Black families relocating to mostly ...

Alfred University students with Loren Schoenberg (center), founder and director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Also in photo, English Professor Rob Reginio and History Professor Mallory ...

This collection is a four-star, four-CD set complete with a 100-page booklet that in itself could serve as a textbook of the Harlem Renaissance and the music that it spawned. Rhino has again created ...

The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. In January 1969, the Metropolitan Museum ...

It might have been just another book release party for a young writer’s first novel, but the 1924 dinner held to launch “This is Confusion” ended up instead launching something far greater — the ...

Planning to join us at The Root 100 Gala at the Apollo Theater on December 5? it’s the perfect time to celebrate 100 years of Harlem Renaissance style. The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age of Black ...

A guest stop to read parts of the “FIRE!” magazine at entrance of the Silhouette exhibition inside The Wolfsonian - FIU on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. Carl Juste ...