Gladys Bentley, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, began her blues career singing at ... of African American History and Culture Letter to Paul Kalmanovitz from the Musicians' Protective ...

Their writing and their music, a cultural movement that would become known as the Harlem Renaissance, ultimately found wider, mainstream acclaim. At a time when white culture was celebrating ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Today marks the 133rd anniversary of novelist Zora Neale Hurston's birth. Zora Neale Hurston was an author, ...

focusing on writers of color and the literary movement that was central to the Harlem Renaissance. Artists are the living griots, the cultural memory shapers who both document history and guide us ...

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 ...

Harlem’s Little Blackbird The Story of Florence Mills,” with music by H.T. Burleigh and Scott Joplin, will be the featured ...

With its storied landmarks that were once the haunts of the famed artists that drove the Harlem Renaissance, the period of ...

Abigail Hubbell Rosen McGrath, the founder of the Renaissance House in Oak Bluffs, died on Dec. 20 after a battle with liver ...

The Harlem Renaissance artist William H ... features 29 portraits of change-makers—including Black scientists, singers, educators, activists, musicians and international leaders like Mahatma ...