The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

You might know Baldwin better for his essays, but this piece of classic literature was his first ... as he grows up and takes ...

He is the author of The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness (U Press of Mississippi, 2002), and his recent essays on gender and violence in the Harlem Renaissance have appeared in ...

She passed into literary obscurity after becoming one of the Harlem Renaissance’s most promising writers.Credit...Carl Van Vechten, via Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and The Van ...

The Renaissance Residency reflects the essence of that historical period, focusing on writers of color and the literary movement that was central to the Harlem Renaissance. Artists are the living ...

poetry and music that is now collectively known as the Harlem Renaissance. A photography exhibit currently… ...

Jazz UpFront will host the opening reception for the touring Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library exhibit The Harlem ...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Today marks the 133rd anniversary of novelist Zora Neale Hurston's birth. Zora Neale Hurston was an author, ...

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her ...