This year, a team of Times journalists marked the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance with a series examining its ...

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In 1936, the anthropologist and noted Harlem Renaissance figure Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica to learn the customs and traditions of its free Black population. Her experience there ...

Economic development is jumpstarting in the District as developers broke ground on Thursday for Phase 1 of the Harlem ...

In the famous New York neighborhood, a center of African American culture and home of the cultural flowering known as the Harlem Renaissance, 100,000 people poured out onto the streets.

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As the leaves turn and the air becomes crisp, there’s no better time to explore the vibrant neighborhood of Harlem, New York ...

A new exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections sheds light on an often-overlooked Harlem Renaissance poet in UVA’s backyard. The exhibition, titled “Anne ...

Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues ...

Few figures capture the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance more than Fats Waller ... the characters in a play are not allowed to speak words? Answer: They make small mouth sounds.