Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson ... of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, anti-Communism was one more ...

Lyrical yet direct, Hughes’ poems made him a leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance and remain influential ... high school with the 1921 poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” ...

obliquely justifies his work as a $22.50-a-week VISTA volunteer in Harlem: “Beyond affluence ... The first, which they adapted from the American Negro and learned during the civil rights ...

This 1950s image released by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater shows dancer Alvin ... Amer­ican cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. She excelled as a writer, folklorist and ...

Bottom line: Harry Belafonte was born in Harlem but spent much of his childhood in Jamaica ... After the war, he fell in love with the stage and began his acting career with the American Negro Theater ...

It begins in Harlem, measures the impact of Paul Robeson and the ... including Dick Campbell of the Rose McLendon Players and Fredrick O'Neal of the American Negro Theatre. In the 1940s and 1950s, ...

NEW YORK (RNS) – Harlem ... American history and culture. The Apollo’s Kwanzaa celebration returned with an updated show from the award-winning Harlem troupe Forces of Nature Dance Theatre.

The group, which combines gospel, jazz, R&B and pop, will grace the stage at the Renaissance Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Take 6 has won a whopping 10 Grammys and 10 Dove awards and has ...