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Meet the Father of the Harlem Renaissance
(The Root) — Alain Locke was born in 1885 in Philadelphia to freeborn blacks; his mother was a devoted schoolteacher, and his father a civil servant from Washington, D.C. The couple saw to it that Alain was given a most rigorous education, despite his being hampered by rheumatic fever as a child, which left him…
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A Poet Unafraid to Confront Art and Race
(The Root) — We may never know for sure when and where Countée Cullen was born. He listed his birth date as May 30, 1903, and his birthplace variously as Louisville, Ky., and New York City. It was likely the former, however, since his mother, Elizabeth Lucas, died in Louisville in 1940. Cullen attended her…
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