Although they were illegal, drag balls were considered safe places for gay men to socialize. One of the highlights of the ...
The Harlem Renaissance made Harlem a hub of Black creativity in the 1920s and 1930s. In jazz clubs, literary salons, and speakeasies, Black queer artists expressed themselves, challenged norms, and ...
The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...
The DIA’s collection of and interest in African American art is now one of the largest collections in the world, says DIA ...
Houston theater gets set to ring in the holidays with some traditional favorites and roaring new works. But for those holiday ...
The story of the country's first all-Black magazine, born out of the Harlem Renaissance, brings to the life the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and others.
The Center for African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts was the first department of its kind in the nation when ...
The photographer James Van Der Zee brought a sensitive and artful eye to families in a moment of loss.
Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.
Originally a Dutch settlement, it was once a stronghold of Jewish luminaries.In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance – an ...
It was Black music and creative artistry that made the clarion call to raise voices, spirits, minds and moments that shaped and marked the world’s grand contemporary human narrative and paths.
A one-time-only performance of the George Gray/Sharif Kales Quintet called Jazz: A Music of the Spirit is on Sunday, November 9 at 4:40 p.m. at the Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn.