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.

African Americans from across the country flooded New York City’s Harlem, leading to an explosion of books, poetry and music that is now collectively known as the Harlem Renaissance. A ...

ASALH serves both the academic and the general population. ASALH publishes three scholarly journals: the Journal of African American History (formerly the Journal of Negro History) founded in 1916; ...

Now he’s considered the foremost artist of the Harlem Renaissance – a pioneer who ... illustrations to Alain Locke’s ‘The New Negro.’ He was the only African-American artist to be ...

But when the centre of Negro immorality, by Church definition, definitely shifted to Harlem, the Mother House of the new order was also brought there. The Roman Catholic Church considers Negroes ...

The Harlem People's Voice declared Ellington "the articulate spokesman for the existence of a new Negro with a new point of view." When Ellington returned to Carnegie Hall at the end of 1943 ...

The Harlem Renaissance largely took place in the 1920s ... and caricature have overlaid” in one of his essays on “the New Negro.” The suave, dapper figures in Motley’s pictures are among ...

The Harlem Renaissance offered African Americans across the country a new spirit of self determination ... This episode features an extract from "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" by ...

One of Hughes’ most famous works is “The Negro Speaks of ... Hughes moved to Harlem, New York, in Nov. 1924, where he became ...