In 1926, Josephine Baker was approached by French journalist Marcel Sauvage about writing a memoir. Then 20 years old, the ...

Baker, whose real name was Freda Josephine McDonald, began performing at a young age. As a teenager, she moved to New York City and performed at the Plantation Club during the Harlem Renaissance.

Love, loyalty and community shape a group of friends and lovers singing the blues in Depression-era Harlem in Pearl Cleage's ...

FEARLESS AND FREE: A Memoir, by Josephine Baker Like many Jazz Age greats ... Jews who “are reducing colored people to slaves” in Harlem. Some of her characterizations of Jewish landlords ...

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 ...

Seattle Rep continues its excellent 2024–2025 season with an exemplary revival of Pearl Cleage’s Blues for an Alabama Sky, a ...

The book, out Tuesday, is a fictionalization of the lives of many of the Harlem Renaissance’s key figures, including Hughes, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the woman credited as the whole ...

James Gaston is the owner of Jazz UpFront in downtown Bloomington. Growing up, all James Gaston ever heard in the house was jazz music. “I'm a descendant of the Harlem Renaissance,” said Gaston. “My ...

poetry and music that is now collectively known as the Harlem Renaissance. A photography exhibit currently… ...