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 ...

Two Rice professors say that the monstrous faces in an AI-generated lesson on the Harlem Renaissance are symbols of a state ...

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 ...

Langston Hughes (1902-1967): Langston Hughes was a prolific poet, novelist, and playwright who captured the essence of the Harlem Renaissance through his poignant works. His poems, such as “The ...

The Harlem Renaissance — known then as the "New Negro ... be it dance, music, writing, poetry. It's a very vibrant robust period. "You also have these kinds of compelling commentaries on ...

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 ...

Or listen to Claude McKay recite a poem. You can truly see what used to be there and how it was important to queer history.” With the Queer Harlem Renaissance app, Aiken’s goal is to bring ...

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 ...

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 ...