A new exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections sheds light on an often-overlooked Harlem Renaissance poet in UVA’s backyard. The exhibition, titled “Anne ...
This week Riverwalk Jazz captures the high spirit of the Harlem Renaissance with a program combining the music of Duke Ellington,Eubie Blake, Fats Waller and James P. Johnson with the poetry of ...
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!
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 Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and artistic movement that thrived during the 1920s, was a remarkable period in American history. It was a time when African-American art, literature, and music ...
This collection, which dates from circa 1901-1940, contains 37 books from African-American authors associated with the Harlem Renaissance. These materials were purchased in support of the exhibit "The ...
"Da Block" by Lance Johnson, inspired by Romare Bearden. Mixed media, 2021. Dance, art, literature, poetry, and of course, jazz are a few of the cultural achievements that defined the Harlem ...
Relish the prospect of defining what is hard to define, Capricorn. You can still enjoy the raw experience even as you try to get closer to explaining it. Vegas City Opera brings you this concert ...
Essays. The new negro / Alain Locke -- The new negro--what is he? / A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen -- The negro in American literature / William Stanley Braithwaite -- Closed doors : a study in ...
Harlem was not only the center of a renaissance in African-American literature and culture in the 1920s, writes Mason Stokes, but also a nexus for the exploration of homosexuality among black writers ...