Victoria Christopher Murray's new historical novel, "Harlem Rhapsody," is a love letter to Harlem in the early 1920s and to ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

The New World Symphony launched “I Dream a World” in 2022 serves also as a platform to encourage dialogue about the enduring ...

This is the world to which the new novel ... of the Harlem Renaissance’s key figures, including Hughes, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the woman credited as the whole movement’s ...

Explore the intersection of national and global Black liberation movements at the Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series.

African Americans from across the country flooded New York City’s Harlem, leading to an explosion of books, poetry and music that is now collectively known as the Harlem Renaissance. A ...

“I'm a descendant of the Harlem Renaissance,” said Gaston. “My aunts ... The era was more than just flourishing art and music; it was a movement that showed Black people were more than their skin ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...

"Yes, the Harlem Renaissance from 1920 to 1937, we had a lot of creatives that came here into Harlem to New York City, right? Black creatives, there was a special time, and it was very political ...

Renee Flemings will celebrate the life, art and victories of Harlem Renaissance-era sculptor, activist and arts educator Augusta Savage, in her solo performance piece, “Augusta!” at WP Theater. Learn ...