That was the goal of Robertson teacher Sonje Sturdivant’s class project last year, during which the fourth- and fifth-graders raised money for a new exhibit in the museum about ...

"Empress of the Blues" Bessie Smith was a popular blues and jazz singer during the Harlem Renaissance. The National Museum of African American History and Culture reported that Smith was mentored ...

Thornetta Davis, the 61-year-old singer-songwriter known as "Detroit's Queen of the Blues" and a 10-time Blues Music Award nominee, brought Bessie Smith, a Blues singer from the Harlem Renaissance in ...

and Bessie Smith, propelled African American culture to the forefront of the American artistic landscape. The Harlem Renaissance was instrumental in the rise of jazz, blues, and gospel music ...

The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most iconic ... some of the spaces spotlighted include Hotel Olga, where Bessie Smith and Claude McKay used to stay, the Savoy Ballroom, where the “Lindy ...

They also sponsored a “Black Renaissance,” led by W.E.B. Du Bois and his magazine, Crisis. Harlem’s overwhelming ... Fletcher Henderson and Bessie Smith are flashed onto eight screens ...

Dessi Blue is inspired by an amalgamation of artists from the Harlem Renaissance, such as Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. And though her character is fictional, Ryan says she does ...

The Harlem Renaissance was also an era where prominent Black women like blues singers Bessie Smith and Gladys Bentley were known to be sexually active with other women. "Did [WLW] originate in the ...

The Harlem Renaissance was also an era where prominent Black women like blues singers Bessie Smith and Gladys Bentley were known to be sexually active with other women. "Did [WLW] originate in the ...

Bessie Smith Lenox Avenue and 145th Street A protégé ... The Influence of Black Lesbian and Transgender Blues Women of the Harlem Renaissance on Emerging Queer Communities.” ...