Harlem Renaissance

Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

Bo McMillan on the Confluence of Black Modernity, Self-Determinism, and Belongingness of Harlem's Housing

 
By Bo McMillan  February 13, 2023
The Hub

Evergreen words to live by, from Alice Dunbar Nelson.

By Katie Yee  July 19, 2022
Harlem Renaissance

On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

By Morgan Jerkins  February 16, 2022
The Hub

This is not a drill: we’re getting a new Zora Neale Hurston essay collection in 2022.

By Vanessa Willoughby  July 29, 2021
Behind the Mic

Legacy by Nikki Grimes, Read by Bahni Turpin, Karole Foreman, Zakia Young, and Janina Edwards

By Behind the Mic   March 19, 2021
African American History

How the Schomburg Center Became a Cultural Beacon and Harlem’s Literary Sanctuary

By Kevin Young  February 17, 2021
Lit Century

On the Fine Line Between Antagonist and Love Interest in Nella Larsen’s Passing

By Lit Century   October 28, 2020
History

How Did Artists Survive the First Great Depression?

By David A. Taylor  June 29, 2020
Poets

When Langston Hughes Went to Report on the
Spanish Civil War

By W. Jason Miller  February 24, 2020
Daily Fiction

“A Bit of Our Harlem”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 5, 2020
Essay

Passing for White: A Literary History

By Darryl Pinckney  October 15, 2018
Biography

Alain Locke’s Controversial Vision of a “Negro Renaissance”

By Jeffrey C. Stewart  March 16, 2018
History

A Great Musical Migration: How the Blues Headed North

By Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff  July 19, 2017