The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

an iconic figure in American literature, was a trailblazing poet, novelist, playwright, and social activist who emerged as a ...

Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York's 2025 Langston Hughes ...

The first two episodes drop on Feb. 20, followed by subsequent installments focused on "Art & Literature" (March ... works by Black artists during the Harlem Renaissance, including paintings ...

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her ...

Jazz UpFront will host the opening reception for the touring Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library exhibit The Harlem ...