Nightclubs like the Cotton Club or the Savoy Ballroom are venues ... This is the world to which the new novel “Harlem Rhapsody” (Penguin Random House), the first solo work of historical ...

For a brief, glittering moment in Prohibition history, Bentley’s was the best show in Harlem, an act so audaciously queer and ...

Gladys Bentley, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, began her blues career singing at rent parties (held to raise rent money by charging attendees) and underground establishments in Harlem, New York ...

Bearing the name Regina Anderson Andrews, it memorializes the librarian, playwright and community activist who was influential in the Harlem Renaissance of the 20th century. As the first Black woman ...