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Travel through early 20th-century Harlem in this visual history: a curated collection of photographs, videos, paintings and books that gave the Jazz Age its swing. Tap the images and articles to ...
A century ago, a dinner party in New York set in motion one of the most influential cultural movements of the 20th century. ... If the Harlem Renaissance had a birthplace, this party was it.
It wants to remind us of Harlem’s role as a cultural catalyst in the early 20th century, while showing that those creative energies extended far beyond the familiar reading list of Langston ...
IN SEARCH OF BENGALI HARLEM tracks his quest from mid-20th-century Harlem to Bangladesh, unveiling intertwined histories of South Asian Muslims, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans.
IN SEARCH OF BENGALI HARLEM tracks his quest from mid-20th-century Harlem to Bangladesh, unveiling intertwined histories of South Asian Muslims, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans.
WASHINGTON - Their bravery knew no bounds during the first World War, and come September the descendants of the Harlem ...
When Lillian Lonngren Anders was a student at the High School of Music and Art in Harlem, she came into class one day and ...
Selma Burke was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance movement. The 20th-century sculptor and one-time New Hope resident's most embraceable work is one you probably never knew you've touched.
Discover the forgotten story of L.S. Alexander Gumby, a pioneering gay Black intellectual who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance.
Long before the rise of the black-pride movement in the 1960s, there was the music of Duke Ellington.Born and raised in Washington, D.C. at the turn of the century and exposed early on to pageants ...
Since the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century, dandyism has been integral to the fabric of Black life. And as styles have evolved over the decades, so too has the culture, setting fashion ...
The project is based on book “The World of Stephanie St. Clair: An Entrepreneur, Race Woman and Outlaw in the Early Twentieth Century Harlem” by Shirley Stewart.