The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...
The Harlem Renaissance made Harlem a hub of Black creativity in the 1920s and 1930s. In jazz clubs, literary salons, and speakeasies, Black queer artists expressed themselves, challenged norms, and ...
James Van Der Zee, Person in Fur-Trimmed Ensemble, 1926. © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY At a time when ...