A while back, Victoria Christopher Murray set out on a mission to learn about the women of the Harlem Renaissance. But in her research, she mostly found stories about men – until she came across ...

Imagine stepping into 1920s Harlem — the streets bursting at the seams with the vibrant energy of Black brilliance set to a boisterous jazzy soundtrack provided by legends like Duke Ellington and ...

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...

The Harlem Renaissance made Harlem a hub of Black creativity in the 1920s and 1930s. In jazz clubs, literary salons, and speakeasies, Black queer artists expressed themselves, challenged norms, and ...

Why the era still resonates a century later. By Veronica Chambers I’m a Brooklyn girl, but I’m low-key obsessed with the Harlem Renaissance. I’ve written a book about the era and taught its literature ...

The transition from the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance to the Great Depression years of the early 1930s is the backdrop for playwright Pearl Cleage’s play “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” which is ...

One of classic Hollywood’s major crimes is to have invested colossal efforts in fiction and hardly any in nonfiction, which, in the early days, was largely relegated to “newsreels.” As a result, most ...

NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s. Sponsor Message ...

This year, the U.S. Book Show moves to Harlem on the heels of the centennial anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance. Much has happened in the neighborhood since the seminal works of Langston Hughes, ...

HARLEM, Manhattan (PIX11) — It started as a one-day celebration back in 1974 when Harlem was going through a tough time. Now, Harlem Week is a two-and-a-half-week series of events documenting the rich ...