Queer Harlem Renaissance spotlights sites like the old Savoy Ballroom and Hotel Olga to learn about their history and importance during that era.

The Gilded Age star spent years researching and conversing with colleagues to refine the series’ depiction of Black life.

Versions of Monopoly had existed for years before Parker Brothers acquired the game from Darrow. The game features forty ...

Though Miller traces the origins of the Black dandy all the way back to the early enslavement of Africans in 17th-century London, the art of Black dandyism really hit a stride during the Harlem ...

Dandyism enters a new era with the Harlem Renaissance Black Americans fled the South for cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and New York in a period dubbed the Great Migration.

Schools ‘Spreading Black girl magic’: Berkeley student orators as young as 7 celebrate Harlem Renaissance in poetry and speeches The Berkeley school district’s Black History Oratorical Fest, a ...

Set in 1926 Harlem, Afia’s atmospheric debut and series launch introduces Louise Lloyd, a 26-year-old Black waitress who lives for nights spent drinking and dancing. After Louise punches a white ...

Harlem got so much attention in part because New York was such a hub of publishing. "These were the ways we measure renaissance at that time — arts and letters," Baldwin says.

The Harlem Renaissance was a period when arts, literature, music and cinema flourished in the Black community of Harlem, New York. In the early to mid-1900s, Black culture and pride blossomed within ...

Ida B. Wells was a brave journalist and social reformer who helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Her name is originally derived from a Germanic word ...

Abigail McGrath, founder of the Renaissance House, dies at 84 McGrath grew up among Harlem Renaissance writers and started an Island writing retreat.