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 ...

Imagine stepping into 1920s Harlem — the streets bursting at the seams with the vibrant energy of Black brilliance set to a boisterous jazzy soundtrack provided by legends like Duke Ellington and ...

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 ...

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 ...

PIEN HUANG, BYLINE: A new book is a reader's delight for the who's who it features in its pages. "Harlem Rhapsody" is a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and ...

Illuminating. Informative. Surprising. Perplexing. All of these apply to the large, ambitious survey “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Part jukebox musical and part dance revue, “After Midnight” at the Paper Mill Playhouse searches for the spirit and energy of Black art that was at the core of the Harlem Renaissance. Not overly ...

A stone’s throw from Harlem, on the stately campus of Columbia Journalism School, a two-day conference took place recently celebrating the legacy of hip-hop journalism. With panel discussions, ...

She sang, she played the keys, and she rocked a suit like the best of them. Whatever Gladys Bentley did, she did with absolute aplomb. She knew from a young age that she ran a bit on the butch side; ...

After the success of its world premiere adaptation of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Quintessence Theatre Company is back. In collaboration with the New Classics Collective, it’s now presenting the ...

Life in the 1920s was defined by many cultural, political, and economic developments. Jazz music and flapper fashion defined the era's sound and look. The Harlem Renaissance brought popularity to art ...