The photographer James Van Der Zee brought a sensitive and artful eye to families in a moment of loss.

At 5 p.m. on West 128th Street in Harlem, the rats are already out, and some days it feels like a test of faith. “I would describe it as biblical. It’s epic. It’s unbelievable,” resident Elizabeth ...

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 ...

Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

Langston Hughes, the celebrated poet of the Harlem Renaissance, was deeply inspired by the music of Duke Ellington.

Langston Hughes, one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance, often described his poetry as “jazz written on the page.” He was deeply inspired by the rhythms, improvisation, and spirit of ...

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.

Joël René Scoville and Jenna Gillespie Byrd have released the concept album for their original musical 2&1: A Harlem Love ...

Although they were illegal, drag balls were considered safe places for gay men to socialize. One of the highlights of the ...

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 ...