Renee Flemings will celebrate the life, art and victories of Harlem Renaissance-era sculptor, activist and arts educator ...

Related article: Central Florida city ranked among top endangered historic places in U.S. The Harlem Renaissance, or New Negro Movement, spanned from 1919, after black soldiers returned from World ...

One of Hughes’ most famous works is “The Negro Speaks of ... Hughes moved to Harlem, New York, in Nov. 1924, where he became a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural, social, and ...

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 ...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. The Jamaican-born black nationalist led the Universal Negro ...

She escaped the racism of her native America to find global fame in France. Her 1949 memoir, published for the first time in English, captures Baker’s joyful voice ...

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 ...

Seven Negro Sermons in Verse” is a book of poetry born again as a theatrical production, a Christian musical with a 50-member ...

It is impossible for a youth who has stirred to Martin Luther King’s rhetoric or the understated heroism of a combat-weary Negro ... of the Renaissance heralded the birth of a new concept ...

Black history is American history. It honors our past, present and future. NEPM is committed to sharing programs this month — ...

The great Russian literary genius Alexander Pushkin dies on this day as a result of a duel. He is generally considered Russia’s great­est poet. Unlike many famous Euro­peans of color, Pushkin was ...

But some famous Black actors and actresses have been responsible for many firsts in the industry and continue to influence a new generation of Hollywood ... This actress and activist, was active ...