Harlem got so much attention in part because New York was such a hub of publishing. "These were the ways we measure renaissance at that time — arts and letters," Baldwin says.

Harlem: Diary of a Summer, Jones’ second album, was released in 2005 as the stranglehold he and the Diplomats had held over New York City was beginning to loosen; as New York itself was becoming ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art mounts an almost overwhelmingly ambitious exhibition focused on black art from the 1920s through the ’40s.

The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most iconic eras of all time. During the 1920s and 30s, the Harlem neighborhood in New York City birthed art that would live on within culture. From musical ...

The Big Band Jubilee marks its fifth annual music celebration honoring Juneteenth while recognizing Harlem's place in Black ...

But, Murray said, if Fauset and Du Bois hadn’t been maintaining a rumored secret love affair, the entire legacy, including the Harlem Renaissance, may not have occurred.

Sometimes it’s the sleepers that stay with you. In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still ...

Anne Spencer and The Harlem Renaissance . Curator Karen Sherry gave a tour of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond and discussed the life of poet Anne Spencer and her role during ...

The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age of Black culture. An iconic period of our history, the time between 1920 and 1937 gave birth to Black literature, art, fashion and music that left a lasting ...

A young couple poses on West 127th Street in Harlem with their shiny new Cadillac. She wears a cloche hat and a slight smile, he offers a cool stare from underneath the capacious brim of a fedora ...

Alain Locke is remembered as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance largely for assembling “The New Negro,” a 1925 anthology that immortalized a small group of young writers—Langston Hughes ...