While the Harlem Renaissance was effectively put to an end by the stock market crash of 1929 that started the Great Depression, the people, the thoughts, and the works of art that flourished ...
In the famous New York neighborhood, a center of African American culture and home of the cultural flowering known as the Harlem Renaissance, 100,000 people poured out onto the streets.
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.
The first thing you’re likely to read about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance is that it’s a long-overdue atonement for past sins.
Gladys Bentley, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, began her blues career singing at rent parties (held to raise rent money by charging attendees) and underground establishments in Harlem, New York ...