A combustible mix of the serious, the ephemeral, the aesthetic, the political, and the risqué, the Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans during the 1920s and 1930s.

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

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.

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 ...

The Harlem Renaissance largely took place in the 1920s and ’30s, just when modernism was reaching the zenith of its influence across art, literature, and music. Yet these two periods of heady ...

Ultimately, this chapter uses Passing and Their Eyes as case studies for illuminating the editorial significance of the twenty-first century frameworks that accompany recent printings of Harlem ...

Jazz UpFront will host the opening reception for the touring Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library exhibit The Harlem Renaissance: As Gay as it was Black.

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Renaissance Residency reflects the ...

African American literature, and satire. His research focuses primarily upon the “New Negro” or Harlem Renaissance and African American satirical works of the 20 th and 21 st centuries. His current ...