After the Great Migration saw African Americans relocate in high numbers to northern cities to escape racist oppression, 1920s Harlem, New York became a mecca for Black creativity in visual, literary ...

It was an art movement that helped create a new portrait and understanding of Black life in America. Now, The Harlem Renaissance is the subject of an exhibition at one of the country’s leading museums ...

One night in 1972, William Greaves filmed the last documented gathering of the living luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. The footage was largely unseen until now. His son David and granddaughter ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture talked about the significance of Harlem in the 1920s. The Harlem Renaissance ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is showcasing visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance in the exhibition, “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.” When we think about the Harlem ...

One hundred years ago, in the early decades of the 20th century, a blisteringly brilliant artistic hub coalesced in Harlem, a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, made up of Black writers, poets, painters ...

“Looking for Langston,” the 1989 film and art installation by Isaac Julien, reevaluated gay and lesbian contributions to the Harlem Renaissance. Isaac Julien Harlem Central Park MANHATTAN Downtown ...

First Woman LLC will present three productions in its 2026–27 season, including the world premiere national tour of PIGFOOT MARY'S HARLEM ...

All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Harlem in the 1920s and '30s offered the Black creative class a sense of pride and possibility. It also had ...

The world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores the world-spanning art of the Harlem Renaissance. In January 1969, the Metropolitan Museum ...

The Black luminaries who turned 1920s Harlem into a hub of artistic expression gathered decades later to reminisce. It was a house party for the ages. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a mass exodus known as urban flight ...