The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a movement of the 1920s and '30s that sought to redefine Black identity through literature, music, painting, photography ...

The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

NAU’s Black Student Union held its eighth annual “Black Renaissance” event on Feb. 22, complete with guest speakers and free ...

Outside the Washington Heights branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan ... at NYPL’s 135th Street branch during the Harlem Renaissance and created a place for community gathering ...

The New Negro (New York: Albert and Charles Boni ... See George Hutchinson, The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995), 33–61, ...

At the beginning of February, the Main Library set up an exhibit showcasing works from the Harlem Renaissance.

In 1925, scholar Alain Locke described the Harlem Renaissance by saying “Negro ... According to some scholars, “The New Negro,” written in 1925, was the first literary attempt to uplift ...

A century ago, at the peak of the Harlem Renaissance, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture was formed. The Harlem-based organization, a part of the New York Public Library ...

The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.