The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New ... in the United States in the wake of the Civil War. Well into the 20th ...

The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift. By the early twentieth century, a large number of Southern blacks had left their birth places for Northern cities ...

Do you know the name Gladys Bentley? In the early twentieth century, Harlem was home to many emerging Black artists, from authors like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to jazz musicians like ...

What’s wrong with this country?” No, that’s not a quote from today’s news, it’s a line sung by anarchist Emma Goldman in “Till We Reach That Day,” the climactic Act I closing song from “Ragtime: the ...

The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift. By the early twentieth century, a large number of Southern blacks had left their birth places for Northern cities ...