The 1st Annual Black Fashion World Foundation Gala 2020, Providing Access To The World Of Fashion
By Carla Nelson On Saturday, February 15, 2020, we launched our Gleaning from the Masters educational service program.
By Carla Nelson On Saturday, February 15, 2020, we launched our Gleaning from the Masters educational service program.
U.S. author Toni Morrison, whose 1987 novel Beloved about a runaway slave won a Pulitzer Prize and contributed to a body of work that made her the first black woman to be presented the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at the age of 88, her publisher said.
On a narrow street in Harlem sits the oldest black church in New York state, one of many black congregations that developed in the decades before slavery ended nationwide and that worked for its abolition.
City Parks Foundation is thrilled to announce the 2019 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage,
Right on the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless Black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising stars of Black American culture onto the national television stage.
By Michael McQuillan and Michael Kosciol The March for Our Lives had a nationwide impact on our thoughts and actions on gun safety issues as hundreds of thousands rallied in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver, Miami and even snow-covered Cincinnati, but how many are now active?
A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro –
Photographs by Seitu Oronde On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, Harlem photographer Seitu Oronde headed downtown for all the best behind the scenes shots from the National Urban league’s Harlem Renaissance inspired 61st Annual Equal Opportunity Dinner where the stars came out to shine at the Marriott Marquis in New York.
Jimmy Choo is in house. The Jimmy Choo Leather Sandals echo the Harlem Renaissance timelessness with a cut here, a curve at the arch there – these pumps add instant allure with a tantalizing mashup of mesh, straps, stitching and more of elegance.
Jimmy Choo is in house. The Jimmy Choo Mutya Pointytoe strappy pumps echo the Harlem Renaissance with a twist here, a curve there – these pumps add instant allure to a tantalizing array of asymmetrical straps.
At the turn of the century and before the Harlem Renaissance, there were places like this hand pump well (above) at the rear of a home at 147 West 139th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenue, NY, April 21, 1898 by NY photographer James Reuel Smith.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library today announced the acquisition of American tenor saxophonist and jazz legend Sonny Rollins’ personal archive.
Harlem has always had a love affair with arts and culture, from Orson Welles Macbeth to the Harlem Renaissance. That’s why we love the annoucement today, Lavazza took another major step in its ongoing commitment to helping promote the arts and culture around the world with the announcement of a multi-year collaboration with the Peggy Guggenheim…
Thousands of actors and stage managers live in Harlem because of its rich history of live theatre from the Harlem renaissance to the second renaissance of today.
The Rev. Lillian Frier Webb did everything from pastoring a church to ministering to inmates to running a mental health therapy practice.