In homage to “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith, Mayfield delivered a performance of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” that was as ...

The exciting new groundbreaking book by George M. Johnson, "Flamboyants: the Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known," is ...

The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a movement of the 1920s and '30s that sought to redefine Black identity through literature, music, painting, photography ...

Marjorie Eliot has been hosting jazz concerts in her Harlem apartment for 30 years. We went to check out the music scene in ...

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 ...

The Harlem Renaissance was a period when arts, literature, music and cinema flourished in the Black community of Harlem, New York. In the early to mid-1900s, Black culture and pride blossomed within ...

During the Harlem Renaissance, queer Black artists and writers helped shape American culture, even as they faced persecution ...

The sights and sounds of the Harlem Renaissance in New York reached San ... But Wherever black people go, they bring their music and their culture with them,” said Genealogist Yvette Porter.

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 ...