The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

There will be featured readings from Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jessie Redmon Fauset and ...

The biographer’s ‘Joy Goddess’ (Scribner, June) explores the life and times of her great-grandmother A’Lelia Walker, the daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and heiress to the Walker hair care fortune.

Prom season kicked off earlier this month, and one Atlanta high school chose a memorable theme. The senior students at Miller ...

one of the leading writers and editors of the Harlem Renaissance. New York Times best selling author Victoria Christopher Murray didn't find the subject of her latest book, Jessie Redmon Fauset.

Gladys Bentley, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, began her blues career singing at rent parties (held to raise rent money by charging attendees) and underground establishments in Harlem, New York ...

"She should be the face of the Harlem Renaissance," Murray said of the ... Murray felt a connection to Fauset: Both are writers who have nurtured others in the field. The connection was so strong ...

A key part of her work emphasizes the Black writers who shaped American literature, and their deep roots in DC. “What we now call the Harlem Renaissance—named after, obviously, a neighborhood in New ...

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The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

Victoria Christopher Murray will discuss her work, including her newest novel, at the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County's event on April 10.