Over a decade ago, Roberts and fellow literary historian and poet Dan Vera launched DC Writers’ Homes, which maps nearly 400 homes of famous ... we now call the Harlem Renaissance—named ...

“I’ve lived in other cities where it’s felt more competitive, and people feel like there’s limited resources ... “What we now call the Harlem Renaissance—named after, obviously, a neighborhood in New ...

The first Black playwright to stage a play on Broadway has roots in the Port City. And a theater group that started in his ...

A Harlem-born ... of painting people’s portraits and using abstract forms and shapes while painting people’s close moments with their families and friends. She is famous for using color ...

The Harlem Renaissance brought popularity to art created ... for "Colored" individuals while that on the left was for white people. Segregation was a prominent aspect of life in the US following ...

While many people celebrate Christmas as a Christian ... In his 1912 poem “Out of Debt,” Jamaican American and Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay writes from the perspective of a father ...

Here, I am excited to share an excerpt from my new book Prose to the People ... and Lewis Michaux’s famous and necessary National Memorial African Bookstore in Harlem, to Vaughn’s Bookstore ...

If you can, spend an evening at Old Town's The Second City comedy club, where famous comedians ... boom similar to the Harlem Renaissance, with such legendary people as civil rights activist ...

At Harlem’s first-ever five-star ... It’s a great spot for people watching alongside the hotel’s storied Bemelmans Bar, famous for its colourful murals by illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans ...

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