And dish water gives back no images. In 1926, the poem “No Images,” by nineteen-year-old Waring Cuney, won a literary contest hosted by Opportunity, a prominent magazine of Black culture ...

Langston Hughes poems guaranteed to move you. L angston Hughes is one of the most prolific yet most underrated American poets ...

becoming one of the first Black woman whose works were included in the “Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.” Though she spent most of her life in Virginia, she played a critical role in the Harlem ...

and new rhythms of poetry. The Upper Manhattan neighborhood was the birthplace and namesake of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, literature ...

“There’s so much to admire in the energy and musicality of Anne Spencer’s poems — her life in the Harlem Renaissance, as a practicing artist and as a civil rights leader, is such an ...

This week’s installment tests your knowledge of novels, poems and memoirs by writers connected to the Harlem Renaissance, a creative movement by Black authors, artists and musicians that ...

Like, would the Harlem Renaissance have happened without their ... Here is a clip of Langston Hughes reading one of his early poems, "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING ...

This era took place alongside the flowering of visual arts, poetry and prose known as the Harlem Renaissance. Stick around afterward and get tips on where to grab lunch! If you are not a member ...

Americans searching for a rallying cry for the cause of black men and women killed in police-involved incidents have found inspiration in recent years in "If We Must Die," a poem by Jamaican ...