New American Girl Doll Celebrates Black Joy During the Harlem Renaissance Nine-year-old Claudie Wells’ story unfolds in 1920s New York Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History ...

American Girl taps one of the most lauded eras of Black history for its latest addition with bestselling author Brit Bennett penning the doll’s story. Brit Bennett, left. [Photos: Courtesy ...

Barbiecore has been a ruling summer fashion trend but American Girl is saluting the Harlem Renaissance with its newest doll. The “Claudie Wells” character celebrates the Harlem Renaissance and ...

Madam C.J. Walker’s daughter, A’Lelia Walker, steps into the spotlight in a new biography by A’Lelia Bundles, that celebrates ...

Clothing designer Samantha Black has partnered with American Doll to celebrate the Harlem Renaissance with a new doll named “Claudie.” The Claudie Wells doll is nine-years-old and lives in the ...

The Met’s ‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ honors America’s Black mecca. Pop culture critic Miles Marshall Lewis explores the throughline from the Harlem Renaissance to ...

A young couple poses on West 127th Street in Harlem with their shiny new Cadillac. She wears a cloche hat and a slight smile, he offers a cool stare from underneath the capacious brim of a fedora ...

An ambitious new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uncovers work by long-ignored artists with the help of loans from Black colleges and family collections. Laura Wheeler Waring’s “Girl in ...

Mildred Harris was born in South Carolina in 1926. She moved to Harlem as a baby, when her parents, Eddie and Jessie Mae Harris, joined the wave of African-Americans fleeing the South as part of ...

It’s worth noting that for a show about Black culture in the first half of the 20th century, “Harlem Renaissance” gives little space to the continued horror of lynching, the everyday ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – The newest American Girl doll celebrates the Harlem Renaissance with a backstory set in New York City in 1922. New York Times best-selling author Brit Bennett tells the story ...