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 ...

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 ...

A young couple poses on West 127th Street in Harlem with their shiny new Cadillac. She wears a cloche hat and a slight smile, he offers a cool stare from underneath the capacious brim of a fedora.

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 ...

A new exhibit featuring art from the Harlem Renaissance is coming to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2024. “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” will include the works of more than ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met, will pay homage to Black artists of the early 20th century. A Harlem Renaissance exhibition is set to open in 2024. “We want to show the full ...

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 ...

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 honor of Women’s History Month, we’re highlighting some of the many incredible LGBTQ+ women of both the past and present, women who overcame unimaginable obstacles to change the world. In her ...

Therez Fleetwood, who gained great notoriety with her world couture bridal and ready-to-wear collections, designing custom fashions for celebrities such as Queen Latifah, Angela Bassett Yolanda Adams, ...