Harlem Renaissance

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

It's about the satirical tradition of 'going there.'

The story of America can be told through the story of its periodicals.

The enchanted terms in which F. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed modern America still blind us to how scathingly he judged it.

Langston Hughes, "poet laureate of Harlem," dreamed of an America that lived up to its ideals.

In 1920, James Weldon Johnson went to Washington, armed with census data, to fight rampant voter suppression across the American South.

Arturo Schomburg's work is still inspiring researchers and cooks today.

Honoring Baker alongside Martin Luther King would highlight the long and patient work of building a social movement.

Lewis Leary, who volunteered in John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, later inspired poetry by Langston Hughes.

In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.

A new history of Reconstruction traces the roots of American “respectability” politics through artwork.

A review of George Hutchinson's "Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s."

How Dorothy Porter assembled and organized a premier Africana research collection.

A reflection on Zora Neale Hurston’s newly-published book, "Barracoon."

Who was the most prolific African American filmmaker of the silent film era? That’s a question that has us asking, “were there any?”

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.