The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

Victoria Christopher Murray's new historical novel, "Harlem Rhapsody," is a love letter to Harlem in the early 1920s and to ...

The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic ... journals showcasing a new generation of African American poets and essayists. On stage, "Shuffle Along" (1921) had a record ...

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

poetry and music that is now collectively known as the Harlem Renaissance. A photography exhibit currently… ...

Langston Hughes was known as a key figure in both literary and artistic spaces during the Harlem Renaissance era.

Rhode Island’s Black History Month kicks off with the 30th annual Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading on February 2. The event runs from 1-3 p.m. at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) ...