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TOMORROW’S WORLD has announced, Harlem Renaissance: A 100 Year Revolution, set to mark the centenary of the Harlem ...
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country.
Hundreds of queer people and allies gathered in Manhattan on June 28 to celebrate Harlem Pride’s “sweet 16,” filled with dancing, bright colors, and tributes ...
Koopman was openly bisexual at a time when that was far from the norm, and she spent most of her life with her partner, art ...
Schomburg moved to New York in 1891 and, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926, sold his collection of approximately 4,000 books and pamphlets to the New York Public Library.
The influx set the stage for the Harlem Renaissance, a rich period of Black artistry when jazz styles like Harlem stride piano and swing flourished. Bebop followed, in the 1940s, with Minton’s ...
The Big Band Jubilee marks its fifth annual music celebration honoring Juneteenth while recognizing Harlem's place in Black ...
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country. The center hopes to spread awareness of that fact Saturday ...
Known now as a major exponent of the “Negro Renaissance,” Alexander Gumby is among the most forgotten Blacks ever to have lived in Harlem.
With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their ...