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 ...

As the Harlem Renaissance unfolded in the 1920s, few were closer to its hub than the black poet and playwright Langston Hughes and his white friend and mentor, the writer, photographer and patron of ...

Photographs on the staircase wall inside the Anne Spencer House in Lynchburg show some of its famous visitors: poet Langston Hughes, Justice Thurgood Marshall, inventor George Washington Carver, and ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 Metropolitan Museum of Art is displaying “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” beginning on Feb. 25 until July 28, featuring some 160 works by artists of the Harlem Renaissance and ...

The one-room cottage was a refuge where Anne Spencer wrote her poems. Photo: John M. Hall Harlem Renaissance poet, teacher, and activist Anne Spencer lived in Lynchburg, Virginia, where she and her ...

Miami University Distinguished Professor of Musicology Tammy Kernodle spent the last six months helping curate a weeklong festival that celebrated the Harlem Renaissance. Kernodle is the Curator and ...