Discover how African American travelers can explore heritage sites while supporting Black-owned businesses and creating ...

Explore Baltimore’s powerful museum exhibits that blend immersive art, historical corrections, and community voices this ...

A central figure of the Harlem Renaissance was Augusta Savage (1892-1962), an African American sculptor. "The Harp" was inspired by "Lift Every Voice and Sing" but was later destroyed after its ...

The first Black playwright to stage a play on Broadway has roots in the Port City. And a theater group that started in his ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum / Gift of the Harmon Foundation ... as Johnson heeded Harlem Renaissance leader Alain Locke’s call to “do something on your own people.” ...

April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the beauty and power of poetry. This monthlong celebration, established ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When you think of Washington, DC, the city’s literary scene does not immediately spring to mind. “The ...

Angel: In 1924, as a guest speaker at the famous “coming-out party” for the Harlem Renaissance, Barnes said that African art was as great ... insist that African American spirituals were ...

In advance of next month’s unveiling of “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume ...

The Great Migration brought many Black American artists and thinkers to New York City, famously spurring the Harlem Renaissance, which lasted from the end of World War I through the 1920s.