This week Riverwalk Jazz captures the high spirit of the Harlem Renaissance with a program combining the music of Duke Ellington,Eubie Blake, Fats Waller and James P. Johnson with the poetry of ...
Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!
Photographs on the staircase wall inside the Anne Spencer House in Lynchburg show some of its famous visitors: poet Langston Hughes, Justice Thurgood Marshall, inventor George Washington Carver, and ...
Langston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets of all time. He was the first Black writer and poet to make his living through his words. He led the Harlem Renaissance, ...
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of intense artistic and social growth among black Americans. Cary Wintz's new book, Harlem Speaks, features work from some of the most famous names of that period ...
A stone’s throw from Harlem, on the stately campus of Columbia Journalism School, a two-day conference took place recently celebrating the legacy of hip-hop journalism. With panel discussions, ...
In this expansive introduction to Harlem Renaissance women poets, Grimes utilizes the Golden Shovel poetry technique, which Terrance Hayes conceived in homage to Gwendolyn Brooks, wherein one takes “a ...
Two Cincinnati poets captured the spirit of the Civil War. Now, an Anderson Township man wants to find the poem that reflects ...
The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and artistic movement that thrived during the 1920s, was a remarkable period in American history. It was a time when African-American art, literature, and music ...
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