harlem renaissance
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The Schomburg Center Literary Festival Makes Its Return to Harlem
What’s better than celebrating Black culture and writers on Juneteenth weekend?
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Rapper Black Thought Stars in the Musical ‘Black No More,’ Where He Invents a Machine That Turns Black People White
The musical is set to open on off-broadway this Tuesday
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Josephine Baker to Be Honored at the Pantheon, France’s Highest Posthumous Tribute
The famed entertainer-activist and French Resistance hero will be the first Black woman to receive the honor, 46 years after her death in 1975.
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Black Renaissance: Ibram X. Kendi Partners With Time to Claim a New Era for Black Creativity, With Amanda Gorman as Cover Star
“This Is the Black Renaissance,” the headline above Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s byline for Time magazine proclaims, at once a manifesto and mantra encapsulating what he (and others) recognize as “the third great cultural revival of Black Americans.” Like the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement before it, Black creativity is undeniably thriving, asking no…
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First Look: Queer Harlem Renaissance Spotlights Claude McKay and the Unsung LGBTQ Community in Congo Caberet
The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of black excellence and was eventually considered to be the “black cultural mecca.” But let the history books—and low key us too—falsely tell it, that excellence was mostly heterosexual. But one new project wants to correct the narrative and pushback against the erasure of black LGBTQ artists who not…
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Rebels of Black History: How ‘Joy Goddess’ A’Lelia Walker Created Revolutionary Spaces for the Artistic and the Sensual
She helped artists and intellectuals be the fullest versions of themselves in a country that treated blackness and queerness as a crime.
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Open Thread: VSB x Mahogany Books June Book Club Meeting Selection, Zora and Langston by Yuval Taylor
Back on May 15, we announced that as a way to engage the online VSB community with the in-person monthly book club meeting, we’d post an open thread on the day of the actual book club meeting for those who aren’t in D.C. or who would rather have a convo about the book online. Well,…