The first African American to earn a living as a writer and a shining star of the Harlem Renaissance ... histoire de ma vie” ...

There’s a scene in Toni Morrison’s novel “Jazz,” the 1992 work of historical fiction set in the Harlem Renaissance, in which young musicians play a tune on a rooftop in Harlem. As the ...

(The original title remained in British editions.) The phrase “Nigger Heaven” came from Carl van Vechten’s title for a 1926 ...

Carl Campanile is a veteran journalist with the New York Post, principally covering government and politics. Before coming to the Post in 1998, he worked at The Staten Island Advance and the ...

Dutch designer Niels van Roij revives coachbuilding, collaborating closely with clients to create bespoke, luxury vehicles.

The Harlem Renaissance – what a complex and conflicted aura the term evokes! People can scarcely agree on what it means. A vogue. A blossoming. A failure. A foundation. A few stars. A movement of ...

speakeasies entertaining racially and sexually mixed crowds with illicit drinks and sexually explicit performances - transgressive sexuality clearly represented a visible facet of life during the ...

The Anacostia Community Museum Archives (ACMA) opened in 2001 in the Smithsonian Institution's newly renovated Anacostia Community Museum, founded in 1967 as the first federally funded neighborhood ...

Carl Smith is a senior staff writer for Governing and covers a broad range of issues affecting states and localities. For the past 30 years, Carl has written about education and the environment ...

Carl Cofield: Is a New York based director and ... the 50th anniversary of Dutchman for the Classical Theatre of Harlem/National Black Theatre, Macbeth for Classical Theatre of Harlem/Dinoma ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Gladys Bentley, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, began her blues career singing at rent parties (held to raise rent money by charging attendees) and underground establishments in Harlem, New York ...