More than 60 years after her death, Hurston’s unfinished novel “The Life of Herod the Great” showcases her passion for her ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day events include story times, speakers and fundraising events in Milwaukee and its suburbs.

Black characters and stories have long existed in the classical canon, but they are too often overlooked, obscured by a Western-centric lens.

Jimmy Carter was a president, humanitarian and Nobel laureate. He was also a painter, woodworker and poet. His artistic work ...

Here are five fun things to do this weekend and beyond, including The Harlem Globetrotters and the annual Venezia Renaissance ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...

McGrath grew up among Harlem Renaissance writers and started an Island ... Renaissance House into a literary park and a place for poetry readings. She had been writing a grant for funding to ...

When it comes to the High Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) is as high as it gets. A peerless sculptor, expert draftsman, and reluctant but skilled painter, he was not only one of ...

Hughes, a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, originally wrote ... infusing it with gospel music, poetry and the spirit of an authentic Black church. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, which partnered with the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino—known simply as Raphael to most—was part of the Holy Trinity of the High Renaissance, along with two other guys named Leonardo and Michelangelo. An artist of ...