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

the Howard University professor whose anthology “The New Negro” declared the philosophical basis of what is now called “The Harlem Renaissance.” Hughes and Locke were portrayed by the ...

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 ...

One of Hughes’ most famous works is “The Negro ... to Harlem, New York, in Nov. 1924, where he became a key figure in the ...

Cécile Smetana for The New York Times Supported by By ... “Passing,” for which she is best known, as the Harlem Renaissance cultural movement took shape in the 1920s.