The Metropolitan Museum of Art mounts an almost overwhelmingly ambitious exhibition focused on black art from the 1920s through the ’40s.

The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that we’ve never published, showing the people and the art that they created. By The New York Times By The New ...

The Harlem Renaissance — known then as the "New Negro Movement" — saw the rise of jazz, ... "All these job opportunities are drawing farmers to places like Detroit and Chicago and New York.

Sometimes it’s the sleepers that stay with you. In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still ...

In some ways, the Harlem Renaissance started the debates that we're still having about Black art today, raising questions like, what is art for, and how do we want to represent ourselves?

How the Harlem Renaissance began. Harlem’s growth into a cultural center was spurred by the Great Migration—a decades-long exodus of Black Southerners to northern metropolises that began ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Harlem Renaissance kicked off after a summer of bloody race-related riots in 1919. It flourished in the 1920s and ’30s, a mere half-century after the abolition of slavery ...

HMS-405A The Harlem Renaissance. 3 Credits. This course explores the historical, cultural and literary roots of the early twentieth-century Harlem Renaissance. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, ...

However, the Harlem Renaissance was not a socio-economic movement, but a discreet collection of artists who lived in Harlem. We are grateful for their legacy, but they all were not homeowners ...

Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance. Season 2 Episode 14 | 14m 9s Video has Closed Captions | CC. One of the most influential periods in Black American History post-slavery ...