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James Van Der Zee, Person in Fur-Trimmed Ensemble, 1926. © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY At a time when ...

New York's art scene is turning its focus to the Harlem Renaissance, with a new exhibition spotlighting the role of the Black LGBTQ+ community during the era. "The Gay Harlem Renaissance," on view at ...

A new art exhibition opening this fall in New York City invites visitors to explore a lesser-known but vital chapter of the Harlem Renaissance: the queer artists, writers and performers who helped ...

The transition from the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance to the Great Depression years of the early 1930s is the backdrop for playwright Pearl Cleage’s play “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” which is ...

Weeks after city officials announced a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Harlem was over, families of several victims said they were suing one of the companies they blamed for spreading the ...

One of classic Hollywood’s major crimes is to have invested colossal efforts in fiction and hardly any in nonfiction, which, in the early days, was largely relegated to “newsreels.” As a result, most ...

Mark your calendars as the Harlem Globetrotters will make not one, but three stops across Minnesota this winter. The team puts on a basketball performance like no other, filled with elaborate trick ...

Our journalism is only possible with support from you, our readers. The news mainstream media just doesn’t cover. Racial justice journalism since 1909. There was a full house at the Segal Theater of ...

The historic thoroughfares of Harlem are preparing for their annual transformation as thousands gather for the 56th African American Day Parade this Sunday, September 21. This year’s celebration ...

More than a hundred people filled a stretch of West 138th Street in Harlem Sunday for a block party to celebrate the opening of Abyssinian Baptist Church’s new Dr. Calvin O. Butts III Educational and ...

Thelma Golden, at the Studio Museum in Harlem, with (from left) Jordan Casteel’s Present Tense, 2025; Candida Alvarez’s Le, Lo, Lei, 2025; Mickalene Thomas’s Seated Women With Arms Up #2, 2021; and ...