Exclusive: The Fabulous $3M+ Townhouse Of Harlem Renaissance Legend Zora Neale Hurston
Enjoy the gorgeous, fully renovated former home of a noted Harlem Renaissance figure.
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New Online Book Displays Celebrating Harlem Renaissance 100 At Columbia University
The Gottesman Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of two new online book displays in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance.Continue reading
Fab First Fridays At The Schomburg For “Langston Hughes Birthday Edition” In Harlem
A special edition of First Fridays, the popular monthly social gathering, where we celebrated Langston Hughes’s 118th birthday at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY.Continue reading
Carl Sandburg Inducted Into The American Poets Corner At St. John The Divine In Harlem
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will celebrate the legacy of American poet, editor and three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sandburg (1878 –1967) with his induction into its American Poets Corner.Continue reading
Harlem Fave Zora Neale Hurston’s Last Slave
A previously unpublished work by Zora Neale Hurston, in which the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God recounts the true story of the last known survivor of the Atlantic slave trade, is set to be released next year, more than half a century after her death in 1960.Continue reading
“The New Negro: The Life Of Alain Locke,” Who Believed Art Was Key To Black Liberation
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 -Continue reading
Talks At The Schomburg: Zines: Elaborate Disruption And Black Creativity In Harlem
The resurgence of zines—self-published limited-distribution works—is stemming the tide of erasure, disrupting publishing, and offering creative spaces for diverse voices within marginalized communities.
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Langston Hughes To E. Ethelred Brown At The Schomburg In Harlem (Audio)
On September 28, 1954, poet/playwright/activist Langston Hughes wrote to Ethelred Brown, the Jamaica-born founder of the Harlem Community Church, to inquire about his faith and the distinct beliefs his church kept for a series he was planning to write in the Chicago Defender.Continue reading
Shop Harlem: Hats Off To Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Jonah’s Gourd Vine,’ 1934 (Book)
Jonah's Gourd Vine is a great collectible, by Harlem resident Zora Neale Hurston's first novel, originally published in 1934, tells the story of John Buddy Pearson, "a living exultation" of a young man who loves too many women for his own good.Continue reading
‘Mules And Men’ By Harlem’s Zora Neale Hurston
Mules and Men by Columbia University graduate and Harlem Renaissance story teller Zora Neale Hurston is a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery.Continue reading
Arnaud “Arna” Wendell Bontemps Harlem NY 1923-1930 (video)
Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973 was a Harlem poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Harlem Chamber Players ‘A Hug For Harlem’ Concert At Merkin Concert Hall
The Harlem Chamber Players and Chamber Music NY commissioned Jeffrey Scott to compose A Hug for Harlem for orator and orchestra especially for this concert. Continue reading
Shop Harlem: “Fire!! Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists” (Paperback)
Originally published in 1926, this periodical was re-issued in limited quantity in 1985. Harlemite by Wallace Thurman, Editor and contributor, it contains work by many of the best-known and most celebrated artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance....Continue reading
Souleo: Harlem’s New Children’s Museum Opens In Harlem
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Visual artist, David Shrobe wishes that during his childhood in Harlem he had his own local children’s museum. As a fourth generation Harlemite he is finally seeing that dream manifested with the opening of Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling.Continue reading
