Each of the piece's four panels memorializes an aspect of the African American story, visually narrating the journey of Black ...

In homage to “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith, Mayfield delivered a performance of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” that was as ...

An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE collection featuring ... Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the ...

Osofsky, Audrey. Free to Dream -- The Making of a Poet: Langston Hughes. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1996. This is a biography of the Harlem Renaissance poet whose works gave voice to the joy ...

Original Mature Groovers will hold the second annual Black History Ball in celebration of Black History Month.This year's b ...

An AMERICAN EXPERIENCE collection featuring ... Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Hurston collected folklore throughout the ...

Founded during the 1964-65 academic year, the Society of Afro-American Students at Columbia aimed to provide the handful ... Later, the school was absorbed into the New York Public School System.

James Van Der Zee was an African-American photographer known for his distinctive portraits from the Harlem Renaissance. The artist used photography as a means not only to celebrate black culture but ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

the store’s African-American proprietor. Below Smalls’ photo is his slogan — “Rugelach by a brother.” Smalls, 75, has turned his unlikely business into a Harlem institution. For half a ...