American music, at its core, is inseparable from a history defined by reinvention, resilience, and Black artists.

Zora Neale Hurston, the celebrated Harlem Renaissance author, wanted to stage a play with an all-Black cast at Rollins ...

AS THE dust of the recently concluded mayoral election settles in New York’s political consciousness, a new dawn begins.Red ...

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.

The Harlem Renaissance made Harlem a hub of Black creativity in the 1920s and 1930s. In jazz clubs, literary salons, and speakeasies, Black queer artists expressed themselves, challenged norms, and ...

If you’re craving a trip to the mountains and a tipple, don your best Prohibition-era outfit and head to Estes Park for the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "It's 1927; the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing and Negros are in vogue.

Our journalism is only possible with support from you, our readers. The news mainstream media just doesn’t cover. Racial justice journalism since 1909. The New York Historical’s (formerly The New-York ...

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...

The developers of a major mixed-use tower in Harlem are suing the city after they were denied nearly $17 million in tax breaks — a setback that caused “massive financial harm” to their project, the ...

James Van Der Zee, Person in Fur-Trimmed Ensemble, 1926. © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY At a time when ...