Harlem Renaissance

The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance.

The confluence of Black modernity, self-determinism, and belongingness of Harlem's housing.

Stephanie St. Clair, who gained notoriety as a criminal entrepreneur and a fashion icon, was a powerful Black woman able to wrest control in a world run by men.

Acknowledging the queer culture of the Harlem Renaissance is essential in order to paint a full picture of the period.

Considering the suppressed legacy of Claude McKay’s two “lost” novels, “Amiable with Big Teeth” and “Romance in Marseille.”

How the failed search for a silent film uncovered a lost musician of the Harlem Renaissance.

The New York Renaissance, also known as the Harlem Renaissance, was the first Black-owned, all-black, fully-professional basketball team established in 1923.

"I idolized women like Marvel Cooke," Angela Davis tells Teen Vogue.

A new book on Claude McKay is part of an effort to place the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance within the Black radical tradition.

The story of the first major black-owned record label and the mystery behind the man who created it.

When a pair of college friends with a knack for comedy met up with a musical double act, they had the ingredients for a sensation.

An abstract expressionist and master of collage, an intellectual and outspoken activist, Bearden evolved as much as his times did.

John W. W. Zeiser reviews Peter Bagge's graphic biography "Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story."

W.E.B. Du Bois’ message to African American artists.

Black identity is a reality, not an idea.

Can it be produced without controversy?

The Globetrotters have always been far more than just a comic exhibition team, just as sports have always meant much more than escapism.

What will be the legacy of the Black Arts Movement? Ishmael Reed reflects on the transformation and growth of Black arts since the 1960s.

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.

What an old poem says about the search for justice following the Capitol riot.