The exciting new groundbreaking book by George M. Johnson, "Flamboyants: the Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known," is ...

Another of the originators of the Harlem Renaissance, Charles S. Johnson worked with Alain Locke to plan the March 21 dinner. Believing that art and literature could help uplift African Americans ...

The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a movement of the 1920s and '30s that sought to redefine ...

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The Harlem Renaissance was a period when arts, literature, music and cinema flourished in the Black community of Harlem, New York. In the early to mid-1900s, Black culture and pride blossomed within ...

The Renaissance Residency reflects the essence of that historical period, focusing on writers of color and the literary movement that was central to the Harlem Renaissance. Artists are the living ...

During the Harlem Renaissance, queer Black artists and writers helped shape American culture, even as they faced persecution ...

Eudora Welty Lillian Hellman Carson McCullers Flannery O’Connor The author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance, but she had a falling ...