When we think about the Harlem Renaissance, we usually think about it as a literary movement, writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. But the Black cultural revival that spanned from the ...

The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most iconic eras of all time. During the 1920s and 30s, the Harlem neighborhood in New York City birthed art that would live on within culture. From musical venues ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a mass exodus known as urban flight ...

This year, the U.S. Book Show moves to Harlem on the heels of the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. Much has happened in the neighborhood since the seminal works of Langston Hughes, ...

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 ...

"The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism" showcases a dazzling array of invention by figures familiar and obscure. Aaron Douglas, Aspiration (1936) from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's ...

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!

One of classic Hollywood’s major crimes is to have invested colossal efforts in fiction and hardly any in nonfiction, which, in the early days, was largely relegated to “newsreels.” As a result, most ...

In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a mass exodus known as urban flight and residents ...

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 ...