Pianist embraces the heritage of two countries Nov 30, 2007
From the Harlem Renaissance through the bop era, Paris offered shelter and a creative setting to African-American musicians. Although the days of Bud Powell or Dexter Gordon playing in the Latin Quarter are long gone, the City of Light remains home to more recent expatriates such as saxophonist David Murray, as well as feeding ground for a busy homegrown scene. (Boston Globe)
Langston Hughes, Best of Simple Nov 24, 2007
He was a leading author of the Harlem Renaissance in which throughout the 1920s, artistic and literary movement was concerned with developing black pride ... Hughes's autobiography, The Big Sea, describes the period of the Harlem Renaissance. (Suite101.com)
DHS drama club prepares for season opener Nov 14, 2007
What do you get when you take a classic Shakespearean tale and set it in the Harlem Renaissance ... When asked about how she decided to rework the play and set it in the Harlem Renaissance, White said it was a collaborative effort with English teacher Leslie Gibbs ... All the classes study the Harlem Renaissance in literature, so the two decided it would be an interesting treatment for their upcoming play. (Demopolis Times, AL)
SCSU exhibit focuses on first half of triumphant photographic display Oct 18, 2007
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Event unites members during homecoming Oct 15, 2007
The theme for the evening was "The Harlem Renaissance," which was a black cultural movement that occurred in New York City during the 1920s and '30s. The event included fashion shows, a comedian and two variety shows. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Community center to be built honoring Augusta Savage Oct 9, 2007
She went on to have a piece commissioned for the 1939 World's Fair in New York City and became a teacher and political activist who helped young African-American artists during the Harlem Renaissance. Copyright MyClaysun. (Florida Times-Union)
Zane's World: Fisky Business Sep 13, 2007
Johnson came from the same zeitgeist in New York City as Stieglitz and the young OKeeffe, one in which the black cultural flowering known as the Harlem Renaissance was one of the primary influences in the arts. Stieglitz had organized a groundbreaking exhibition of African art and Johnson, in his capacity as editor of a magazine called Opportunity, fostered a number of careers among emerging Harlem Renaissance artists, several of whom eventually joined the faculty at Fisk. (Santa Fe Reporter)
Brownstone of poet Langston Hughes experiences own Harlem renaissance Jul 23, 2007
"Having that base - that house - was very important to the last 20 years of his life," said Arnold Rampersad, who wrote a two-volume biography of the Harlem Renaissance writer ... Miller, who said he first learned about the Harlem Renaissance and its most famous writer in the sixth grade in Connecticut, was inspired by the 1920s cultural movement to start writing. (The Clarion-Ledger)
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For 25 cents, she gets paperback books by her favorite authors: Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson and the Harlem Renaissance poets. One semester she saw "July's People," about a future revolution in South Africa, on the list of required books. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Meanwhile: I am, therefore I need to dance Jun 4, 2007
They date back to the Harlem Renaissance, which had created the unsettling prospect of interracial dancing. For decades, no one paid much attention to the laws until Mayor Rudolph Giuliani decided to get tough. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Ralph Ellison: An invisible man no more May 10, 2007
In 1968, when riots broke out after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., he was a Harvard graduate student in English literature, focused on the Harlem Renaissance. That was when he read Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's seminal 1952 novel about the black experience. (USA Today -- Life)
The Con's English: May 1, 2007
The most famous coiners of urban slang these days are rap and hip-hop artists, but during the Harlem Renaissance, the chief neologists were jazz musicians, the mainstays of the Cotton Club and Apollo Theater. Then, too, there were collectors of slang. (Slate)
The Impermanent Collection Apr 13, 2007
At the urging of a friend, the Harlem Renaissance writer Carl Van Vechten, she gave 97 works to Fisk University, the historically black school in Nashville. And she threw in a few of her own. (Time.com)
Students visiting historial sites Apr 12, 2007
In Philadelphia we will tour some of the Underground Railroad historical homes, and once we make it to New York we will visit Harlem to see some sites of the Harlem Renaissance, see The Color Purple on Broadway, before making an appearance on the CBS Early Morning Show on Thursday. Also, while we are in New York we will visit the Statue of Liberty, said Manning. (New Iberia, LA)
Penning a mysteryHistory detectives rely on Stamford resident's expertise Apr 7, 2007
"This was one that allowed us to explore questions of signatures, autographs, ownership and, with that, to raise ideas about women performers, about the Harlem Renaissance, about the parallel movement in Chicago, about the place where there was increasing segregation and even violence, and how this one sort of characterizes the movement, bearing in mind there are always alternatives within them," said Gwendolyn Wright, the show's host and a professor of history at Columbia University. The... (Stamford Advocate)
Electives required Apr 2, 2007
Newton North High School offers some of the more offbeat courses available locally, on subjects such as the Harlem Renaissance, modern poetry, ethics in the modern world, meteorology, and oceanography. Rita Sheinker teaches a course titled "Advanced Clothing and Fashion Design" at the school. (Boston Globe -- Local)
THE WEEK AHEAD Mar 25, 2007
TODAYBOOK SIGNING: 'Tuscan Light: Memories of Italy' by Mark Gordon Smith of Brunswick County, 3 p.m. at Rube McCray Memorial Library, 301 Flemington Drive, Lake Waccamaw (The Morning Star)
Gender benders Mar 19, 2007
The Yvonne Pappenheim Library on Racism owns 2,600 books, whose topics range from slavery and the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary anti-racism efforts, as well as children's books, videotapes, and DVDs. The library, at 14 Beacon St., is operated by Community Change, founded in 1968 shortly after King's assassination. (Boston Globe)
Book Your Place in the Big Read Mar 14, 2007
A contemporary of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurst's work provides an opportunity to explore the rich history of African-American culture in Harlem during the 1920s and '30s ... While the Harlem Renaissance was a time of great creativity, "We will look at what was going on in North Carolina in the African-American community," said Kathryn Beach, Museum of the Cape Fear research historian. (Up & Coming Magazine, NC)
O'Keeffe painting involved in modern fight Feb 16, 2007
Mr. Vechten, who was white, collaborated with, and was a patron to, black artists and writers during the Harlem Renaissance, and was a friend of Fisk's president at that time. The bequest included works by many modernist painters championed by Mr. Stieglitz at his famed "291" gallery in New York. (AZCentral -- Business)
Haitians Celebrate Rich Cultural Legacy Feb 16, 2007
For example, when talking about writers from the Harlem Renaissance, Marcelin points out that Zora Neale Hurston wrote her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in Haiti in the 1930s, and the poet Langston Hughes wrote admiringly of the Haitian peasants who walked down mountain roads barefoot, balancing baskets on their heads, to sell their wares. "They should have been teaching this in school, that soldiers from Haiti came to fight in the American Revolution," Marcelin said. (The Ledger)
Duo pass along tales for Black History Month Feb 9, 2007
Tutson and Coleman, who travel across the country recounting stories from African, African-American and Caribbean oral traditions, weaved in historical information about two famous black writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Yesterday's program was titled "I, Too, Am America," based on the last line of a Hughes poem on the desire for blacks to recognized as equals in America. (Greenwich Time)
10 standout books to mark Black History Month Feb 6, 2007
"Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance." Edited by Cary D. Wintz. Sourcebooks. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Delco to kick off Black History Month Feb 1, 2007
Harrison Ridley Jr., who teaches African and African-American musical forms at Temple University, will present "The Harlem Renaissance" 6 p.m. Feb. 27. He has hosted "The Historical Approach to the Positive Music" on Temple s radio station, WRTI, since 1976. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
Recognize black history throughout the year Feb 1, 2007
Looking at the Harlem Renaissance and the Million Man March as events belonging to some discrete history apart from the general course of American history marginalizes these important events. Relegating these to the sidebars of American history textbooks and taking them out of the context of the general course of American history are distressing. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Black History Month Gets Animated with Short Movies Honoring African American Heritage Jan 30, 2007
More than a dozen animation shorts honoring some of the most well known African Americans -- including Maya Angelou, Jackie Robinson and Oprah Winfrey -- and detailing the history of the African American experience from slavery to the Harlem Renaissance are being offered free of charge by BrainPOP () throughout the month of February as a salute to African American culture. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Black Dance Rainbow Jan 28, 2007
Creating a dance about the Harlem Renaissance, Simpson saw what the West Coast had lacked: "a tight-knit group where younger artists can talk to the pioneers who paved the way," she says. But she thinks the festival has recaptured that spirit. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Mapping the road to the future Jan 25, 2007
Poor people are creative by themselves, but put a lot of them together and the result is brilliant - African-American artistic genius in the Harlem Renaissance, Jewish intellectual genius on New York's Lower East Side, Irish political genius in Boston's South End. The "Living on $US20 to $US50 a day" map shows where people are poor but not so miserably poor that they're sunk in inertia and despair. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Rafia Zafar receives Fulbright Scholar award Jan 19, 2007
"I'm teaching a course on the Harlem Renaissance. Right now, lots of the European countries are dealing with immigration, so I proposed coming over to teach literature as a comparative experience. Essentially, the students are really interested. I get a chance to talk with students, not to talk at them." Page 1 of 2. Article Tools. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
They're living out a dream Jan 14, 2007
The seventh annual "I Have a Dream" weekend also featured a drum circle, educational films about King and a crafts room, where children created collages in the style of Romare Bearden, a celebrated African-American artist of the Harlem Renaissance era. The museum's activities are to continue today and tomorrow. (SunSpot.net)
City to get room with a view -- of the past Jan 13, 2007
And he envisioned a space honoring Augusta Savage, the Green Cove Springs native who went on to craft a piece in a World's Fair and play a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance. "If we don't capture that history, we will lose it forever," he said. (Florida Times-Union)
New 2007 titles Jan 2, 2007
Non-fiction-On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance by Kareem Abdul- Jabbar with Raymond Obstfeld (Simon & Schuster, Jan. 30)-Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, April 10) ... On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with Raymond Obstfeld (Simon & Schuster, Jan. 30). (USA Today -- Life)
Money needed for landscaping at Lincoln landmark Jan 2, 2007
"He had a lot of historical significance in Lincoln. I couldnt believe it and thought, Not Langston Hughes of the Harlem Renaissance." ... gov, Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the black artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
WP: Trove of black history gathers dust Dec 13, 2006
She was especially strong on the writers of the Harlem Renaissance, obtaining first editions and correspondence from Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. Her trove includes the first book published in America by an author of African descent, Phillis Wheatley's "Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral," dated 1773, when she was a slave in Boston. (MSNBC -- Race)
Professors awarded for contributions to U Dec 11, 2006
Wall contributes to the field of African-American literature, focusing on the Harlem renaissance and black women, she said. "Cheryl Wall is one of the very few faculty members who have received an award in every aspect of the University," Galili said. (The Daily Targum, NJ)
Life of Langston/ Profile of poet Hughes Dec 9, 2006
At the end of the 1920s, he lived in New York City and was an important influence on the Harlem Renaissance, that great era of black art and culture. He was the first black writer to make his living from his work. (Buffalo News)
Former Saluki Mike Glenn creates African-American sports exhibit Dec 6, 2006
"I went on a book-collecting binge, starting with the Harlem Renaissance Period, then to slavery, then to the arts, and eventually got to sports.". But before he stumbled upon his passion for African-American history, Glenn's heart and soul has - and continues to be - committed to children in the deaf community. (Siusalukis.com)
U announces diversity awards Nov 28, 2006
Samuels has also sponsored numerous trips for students to places such as New York City to explore first hand the birthplace of the Harlem Renaissance. Page 1 of 1. (Daily Utah Chronicle, UT)
'Porch Stories' Nov 26, 2006
Her grandmother, Ernestine -- like mine and a million other inner-city grannies -- would never have tolerated such jokes about the communities in which they made their homes, raised their babies and witnessed the rise of the Harlem Renaissance, the black power movement and hip-hop. Rhodes was raised in her grandmother's home on the North Side. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
STANLEY CROUCH Oct 27, 2006
I have spoken about the Harlem Renaissance and the experience has been a revelation. The young students come from all over New York and represent every ethnic group. (The Drudge Report)
Teaching to a different tune Oct 22, 2006
Whittaker, a Lake County resident since 1972, said other expanded lessons are the Harlem Renaissance, which will include writers, painters and musicians of the time; field hollers, songs that were sung by slaves while working in the fields; and the final lesson, Florida history, will include John Mellencamp's "Small Town.". For each lesson, Whittaker hands out words to the songs so students can follow along while listening to the music. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Diddy's former assistant talks up 'All That Jazz' Oct 20, 2006
There were also more serious topics to discuss with the North Atlanta students, like: the Harlem Renaissance ("I want y'all to remember one name - James Van Der Zee"); how to handle money ("Save some. Invest some. And give some."); and how he first got Combs' attention (The often well-dressed Bentley would go up to him, quickly model his clothes and say: "You want to do this. But you can't do this." And walk away. . (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Helping to publicize a historic sculptor Sep 22, 2006
"She was a pivotal artist of the Harlem Renaissance, at the center of it," Leininger-Miller said ... Savage went on to receive a two-year fellowship in Paris, have a piece commissioned for the 1939 World's Fair in New York City and became a teacher and activist who helped young African-American artists during the Harlem Renaissance. (Florida Times-Union)
Awarded Neb. Legacy scholarships Sep 21, 2006
Full tuition-differential scholarships were named George Beadle Scholarships in honor of the 1926 graduate who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in physiology for his work in plant genetics; the 25 percent tuition-differential scholarships were named Aaron Douglas Scholarships in honor of the 1922 graduate who has been described as the father of African-American art and was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance movement. This academic scholarship is in recognition of the student's transfer grade-point... (Missouri Valley Times News, IA)
Hurston's grave to be improved for Zora Fest Sep 18, 2006
The famous author and anthropologist, known as a leader in the Harlem Renaissance, is buried in the Garden of Heavenly Rest, a privately owned cemetery at Avenue S and 17th Street. More local news. (The Palm Beach Post)
Green Cove Springs events highlight noted scupltor Sep 10, 2006
Green Cove Springs and the Clay County Archives will host two events next week focused on the life and achievements of native daughter Augusta Savage, a famed sculptor and leader of the Harlem Renaissance ... Savage went on to have a piece commissioned for the 1939 World's Fair in New York City - that work was called The Harp - and became a teacher and political activist who helped young African-American artists during the Harlem Renaissance. (Florida Times-Union)
New books 'Keep' the past in perspective Sep 1, 2006
Joseph uses primary sources, including the Baltimore-Washington Afro-American, to take readers from New York to Oakland to Ghana, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Attica prison riots and beyond. The beginning of Joseph's book is especially good; toward the end he seems to be rushing to the finish line. (Columbia Flier, MD)
Remarks by First Lady Laura Bush After Visit to Wright-Dunbar Village Aug 17, 2006
In 2003, President Bush announced the Preserve America Initiative, and that initiative is designed to help neighborhoods like this one, and communities, figure out how to preserve and protect both their natural assets and their cultural and historical assets for the benefit of the citizens of the community -- and really for the benefit of all of us, for everyone who has the opportunity to come here and to learn about the early days of flight, of Orville and Wilbur; and to learn about the first... (PR Newswire)
A legacy that inspired a generation of artists Jun 7, 2006
The art they produced, astonishing in its diversity and range, contributed to the great cultural flowering known as the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, when black artists, writers and musicians set out to create a new image of the African-American - urban, sophisticated, socially aware - to fit the rapidly changing times. Now Tanner's legacy for the artists of the Harlem Renaissance is the subject of Henry Ossawa Tanner and His Influence in America, a terrific exhibition of more than 40... (SunSpot.net)
Content Remains Key, One of Many Revelations at Teen Panel at Book Expo America May 20, 2006
The imprint takes its name from the advice given by Lucy Potts Hurston to her daughter, the Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston. She urged young Zora to aim high in life -- to "jump at the sun." It is an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children, a unit of Disney Publishing Worldwide. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Identity and Images Apr 21, 2006
" The second gallery, titled "An Awakening of a Black Conciousness in American Culture," shows the effects of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-35) in infusing an African-American sense of identity into art. Many of the images from this time period show everyday life in a conscious effort to contradict racist stereotypical depictions being perpetuated at the time. The gallery shows how anger and frustration began to show up in African-American art with the coming of the civil rights era. One of the... (The News-Herald)
Celebrating black writers year-round Feb 10, 2006
In 2000, the "Celebration of Black Writing" expanded to five days, highlighting writers of the Harlem Renaissance. "All of a sudden we had speakers from all over the world, and it killed me," Robin said. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
WRAMC slates Black History Month events Feb 8, 2006
Part of this development included a cultural movement called the Harlem Renaissance, which resulted in a flowering of African-American literature and art during the 1920s ... The Harlem Renaissance faded with the onset of the 1930s Great Depression. (dcmilitary.com)
Auctions | Elegance from a Biddle estate Feb 7, 2006
Ron Rhoads Auctioneers will conduct an auction beginning at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Kimberton Fairgrounds that will feature furniture, collectibles, and an oil by Romare Bearden, the Harlem Renaissance painter who lived from 1911 to 1988. Most Bearden works on the market these days are prints and lithographs, which can sell for $3,000 or more. (Philly.com -- Home Design)
