Black History Month events Feb 13, 2009
Feb. 21 - Harlem Renaissance Ball. Feb. 22 - 6 p.m. Rudder Auditorium. (The Battalion, TX)
100 YEARS A Century of the NAACP Feb 12, 2009
Langston Hughes, the famous poet of the Harlem Renaissance, later wrote the first history of the NAACP, calling the five letters the "most famous initials in America.". The NAACP was founded soon after Abraham Lincoln's home town went up in flames. (Washington Post)
Stewart describes Hurston as a folklorist Feb 11, 2009
Hurston was college-educated during the 1920s when the streets of Harlem, a borough of New York City, were alive with cultural creativity-art, music, writing-a period known historically as the Harlem Renaissance. At the time, Harlem drew blacks and their supporters from the American South, from big cites nationally, even from the Caribbean and the West Indies. (Washington Journal, IA)
American Idol winner performs Ain't Misbehavin' Feb 10, 2009
"cutting contests" in which the guests would decide who was the most talented, according to the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Seven years later, Waller wrote the score for the Broadway show Hot Chocolates, which included his famous song "Ain't Misbehavin.'" Waller got his big break when he signed with Victor Records in 1934, and he recorded with them until his death in 1943, according to the Red Hot Jazz Archive. (The Battalion, TX)
Historical portrait of Harlem Renaissance author offered at free Friday library program Feb 8, 2009
Dr. Catherine Stewart will present a historical portrait of writer Zora Neale Hurston, an African American who wrote during the Harlem Renaissance. Stewart will deliver "Feast, Flood, and Famine: Zora Neale Hurston's Search for African American Folk Culture," at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, as part of The Big Read, a grant-funded initiative from the African American Museum of Iowa intended "to restore reading to the center of American culture. Published in 1937, Their Eyes Were Watching God chronicles... (Mt. Pleasant News, IA)
Claudia Roth Pierpont: James Baldwin’s flight from America. Feb 8, 2009
Although Baldwin seemed a natural heir to the Harlem Renaissance he was born right there, in 1924, and Countee Cullen was one of his schoolteachers the bittersweet poetry of writers like Cullen and Langston Hughes held no appeal for him. It was Wright s unabating fury that hit him hard. (New Yorker)
Lee Discusses Politics, College Experience Mar 31, 2008
Lee was the keynote speaker for "The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts rs," a conference hosted by the Institute of African American Studies in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A rather large audience came to hear the words of the well-known director. (The Daily Campus, CT)
Busboys and Poets owner Andy Shallal to open new D.C. eatery Eatonville Mar 25, 2008
A literary influence during the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston received an associate's degree in 1920 from Howard University and is best known for her novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God.". Shallal said he's still finalizing the Eatonville concept and declined to share any details, but anticipated a late summer or early fall opening. (Washington Business Journal, DC)
Harlem Globetrotter makes stop in South Berwick Mar 18, 2008
Oh my God'," she said.Evans told students the story of the Globetrotters."The reason we got the name 'Globetrotters' was because of the Harlem Renaissance," he said. "Our first name was the 'Big Savoy Five. We got that name from a dance hall where we first played in Chicago, Illinois. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Walk along the African American Heritage Trail Mar 15, 2008
Some of the sites on the trail are associated with prominent individuals, such as the great gospel singer Mahalia Jackson's grave in Providence Park Cemetery in Metairie; and the Arna Bontemps African American Heritage Museum in Alexandria, the family home for a writer who went on to become important in the Harlem Renaissance. Other places on the trail in New Orleans are the New Orleans African American Museum, St. Louis Cemeteries No. 1 and No. 2, the French Market and the Amistad Research... (MSNBC -- Travel)
'Incognegro': Black and white and graphic all over Mar 3, 2008
Aching to become a more recognized part of the booming, cultural Harlem Renaissance, Zane cuts a deal with his editor: one last investigative report in exchange for the positions of managing editor and columnist. Zane's preparation for his trip to Tupelo, Mississippi, showcases the strength of graphic novels: words and images working together to enhance each other. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Today's best bets Feb 17, 2008
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Happy Valentine’s Day Feb 16, 2008
Rosa Parks, the seamstress, who refused her seat for a white man, which ignited the civil rights movement in 1955 with the Birmingham Bus Boycott, Ronald Raegan, the actor-turned president, Norman Rockwell, the American painter who painted the common person in common activities and situations, Langston Hughes, the Harlem Renaissance writer in the 1920s and 1930s, Thomas Edison, the famous inventor and Susan B. Anthony, the Woman s Suffrage leader and the lady on the Dollar coin all have... (Stuttgart Daily Leader, AR)
Foundation spurs young writers Feb 15, 2008
Saturday night, poet Quraysh Ali Lansana and actress and writer E'dena Hines led a program for the public at the Charleston High's Morgan Freeman Auditorium, on The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, a partnership with the Mississippi Museum of Art in conjunction with its exhibit, Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series: Selections from the Philips Collection ... Bayeza led them in connecting the Harlem Renaissance to hip hop along a river of colorful history and later worked out sounds and rhythms for... (The Clarion-Ledger)
SonEdna's Harlem Renaissance workshop Feb 15, 2008
Read reactions to this photo. Add your comment (max 1000 characters) You must be logged in to leave a comment. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Civil Rights Veterans to speak about Ella Baker, SNCC, Social Justice Feb 12, 2008
Informed by her participation in the intellectual ferment of the Harlem Renaissance, her past experiences in youth-centered community organizing, and a disillusionment with the charismatic and male-dominated leadership within the Civil Rights Movement, Baker heavily influenced SNCC's development. Foremost to SNCC's development as an anti-hierarchical organization that valued community-based leadership was Baker's insistence that the founding students resist the wishes of Dr. Martin Luther King... (East Tennessean, TN)
Championing the past Feb 10, 2008
The Rens were named for, and sponsored by, the Harlem Renaissance casino and nightclub. They played at a time of whites-only pro basketball, when the most famous black team was the Harlem Globetrotters. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Sport)
Columnist: 'Abridged version' limits black history Feb 5, 2008
She was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Author Ralph Ellison wrote Invisible Man, arguably the most influential American novel of all time. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Today's culture not justAmerican -- it's African-American Feb 3, 2008
Langston Hughes, 1902-1967; poet and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s ... " attempts to show the moment when Aladdin realizes he is a slave. Many of her quilts commemorate her own family members. One depicts her father as a dashing, well-dressed young man in Harlem.Her artistic influences included Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, two leading painters of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and '30s, a black cultural explosion noted for a burst of creativity in literature,... (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Lima Public Library book reviews Feb 3, 2008
Celeste s Harlem Renaissance by Eleanora Tate. After her mother dies and her father falls ill, 13-year-old Celeste is sent to her live with her actress Aunt Valentina in Harlem. (Lima News, OH)
CNN Student News Learning Activities: Black History Month Feb 3, 2008
Inform students that during the 1920s and 1930s, an African-American cultural movement occurred in the United States that was known as the Harlem Renaissance ... Have your class host a Harlem Renaissance cultural fair ... Have students serve as "roaming curators" to instruct and interest guests in the Harlem Renaissance and the creative works of these great African-Americans. (CNN)
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Bell compared his youth on the West End to the Harlem Renaissance. He said most families were hard-working people. (New Iberia, LA)
Borough Hosts Black History Events Feb 1, 2008
Monday, Feb. 11 at the South Ozone Park Library at 128-16 Rockaway Blvd., an exhibition of art by African-American artists will highlight art from the Civil War era through the Harlem Renaissance, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Queens Library at Rosedale, 144-20 243 St. will host the Museum of Modern Art s series on Jacob Lawrence, depicting the struggles of African-Americans in the Civil Rights Era south starting at 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 18. For more information on the events listed, or to see additional... (Queens Chronicle, NY)
Black bookstore closing Jan 27, 2008
It s one of the most widely read and controversial works of the Harlem Renaissance and was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the Black community. Mr. Drayton has many more such classics available and he s having a liquidation sale. (The Palm Beach Post)
Read Indepth Article Jan 21, 2008
On Friday, Jan. 18, 2008, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will open Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, the first nationally touring retrospective devoted to the foremost visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance ... Frist Center Curator Katie Delmez notes, Like other participants in the Harlem Renaissance and adherents to the notion of the New Negro, Aaron Douglas wanted to embrace the culture and heritageboth good and badthat are unique to African Americans ... In 1925, he moved... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist Jan 21, 2008
Frist Center Curator Katie Delmez notes, Like other participants in the Harlem Renaissance and adherents to the notion of the New Negro, Aaron Douglas wanted to embrace the culture and heritageboth good and badthat are unique to African Americans ... In 1925, he moved to Harlem to join the cultural flourishing that has been called the New Negro Movement or the Harlem Renaissance ... Douglas collaborated with notable Harlem Renaissance writers including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson... (AbsoluteArts.com)
'Song for Coretta' Jan 19, 2008
Named after the seminal Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, the cub reporter probably never expected to find such a goldmine of quirky characters: hilarious teenage trainwreck Keisha, aka Li l Bit (DeAndrea Crawford); bourbon-sipping portrait painter and Katrina evacuee Mona Lisa (Marguerite Hannah); and late arrival Gwen (Bobbi Lynne Scott), an American soldier traumatized by her time in Iraq. Clueless Li l Bit s issues eventually cause Helen to have a bitter, Joan Crawford-like... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Book Review: The Deportees Jan 18, 2008
Declan has come from Ireland to study in New York; sick to death of his Dublin professors droning on about Irish writing and its influence on the world he decides, in the penultimate story of Roddy Doyle's first collection, to prove that the Harlem Renaissance kick-started Ireland's best writing of the 20th century. "And, if he couldn't do it, he'd cheat; he'd make it up. Yeats had died clutching his copy of 'The New Negro.' Beckett never went to the jacks without 'The Souls of Black Folk' under... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Bowles brothers bring own styles to running their cities Dec 28, 2007
The new name honors the renowned sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance; Savage was born and raised in Green Cove Springs. A contract to buy the property from Challenge Enterprises of North Florida is imminent, Bowles said. (Florida Times-Union)
'The Great Debaters' is a winning proposition Dec 25, 2007
He writes the word "revolution" on his chalkboard before explaining the Harlem Renaissance to his students. In the opening sequences, Washington quickly illustrates the movie's social-moral dichotomies, as it cuts back and forth between a jumping juke joint and a volcanic church sermon. (Boston Globe)
War Of Words Dec 25, 2007
The Texas group, from Wiley College, was trained by faculty member Melvin B. Tolson - portrayed here by Washington - a forceful advocate of black self-determination who was a poet, teacher and admirer of the Harlem Renaissance. The heart of the story is the attempt by the no-nonsense Tolson to mold four bright students into powerhouse debaters. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Anthology of golden age wakens pulp mags from big sleep Dec 24, 2007
The Harlem Renaissance was underway. Daly, Penzler observes, was "a hack writer devoid of literary pretension, aspiration and ability." Hammett, on the other hand, was a genius. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Alice Walker's papers going to Emory library Dec 19, 2007
At Emory's Manuscript, Archive and Rare Book Library, Walker's papers will join those of author Salman Rushdie, the late British poet laureate Ted Hughes and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney as well as significant collections related to Harlem Renaissance novelists and poets Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson. Walker, 63, was flying to Mexico for a vacation Tuesday and couldn't be reached for comment. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Film could finally bolster respect for author Dec 17, 2007
PORT ST. LUCIE Author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was famed as the queen of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance but seems largely unappreciated in St. Lucie County, where she died in 1960. That could change with the release of Zora, the St. Lucie Film Society's documentary on her life, from her childhood in Eatonville to her death at a Fort Pierce nursing home. (The Palm Beach Post)
Poetry in motion Dec 7, 2007
The Harlem Renaissance writer who penned poetry, fiction, plays, essays, and libretti for opera and Broadway musicals has been credited with being the first to use jazz and blues to support a literary style. If you've never seen the gospel-infused "Black Nativity," clear your calendar for a performance. (Boston Globe)
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
Leading author of Harlem Renaissance ... 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)
United States Nov 20, 2007
Harlem takes on university in battle of town versus gown. Residents object to plans to turn black neighbourhood into 'Manhattanville. (Guardian Unlimited)
Jay-Z Toasts American Gangster With Diddy, Nas, Beanie Sigel At NYC Show Nov 15, 2007
"This is the genesis of a nemesis/ Mother America's not witnessed since/ The Harlem renaissance birthed black businesses/ This is the tale of lost innocence/ As the incense burns and the turntables turn, and that Al Green plays.". Jay delivered his rhymes with his usual swagger-drenched poise, while his fans rhymed in their seats with vigorous approval. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Julia Bond - Mother Of Julian Bond - Passes At 99 Nov 14, 2007
In 1938, Mrs. Bond posed for an iconic painting by Harlem Renaissance legend Aaron Douglas. Dr. Bond became the first dean at Dillard University, and in 1942, he was appointed president of Georgia's Fort Valley State College for Negroes. (Atlanta Daily World, GA)
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)
Harlem harmonies Nov 3, 2007
NORTH BEND The sounds of the Harlem Renaissance will come to Little Theatre on the Bay next weekend with the fourth-annual Little Ole Big Band show, Keep a Song in Your Soul: A Tribute to the Great Harlem Songwriters. Listing Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Eubie Blake, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver and Cab Calloway among the honored composers, director Steve Simpkins compared the influence of Harlem on the music of the 1920s and 30s to the influence of Vienna in the 18th... (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
Book set mostly does justice to August Wilson's cycle Oct 31, 2007
But the handsome boxed set would gladden the man who once said, "I used to dream about being part of the Harlem Renaissance," and whose favorite honor, outweighing his two Pulitzers and scores of other awards and honorary doctorates, was the high school diploma given him in 1999 by his beloved Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. In general, TCG (the national trade association of not-for-profit professional theaters) has done Wilson proud with its design and editorial embellishments. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
SCSU exhibit focuses on first half of triumphant photographic display Oct 18, 2007
In the 1920s, Harlem, N.Y., was the center of black culture that became known as the "Harlem Renaissance," a time when black literature, art, music, dance and social commentary began to flourish in that particular section of the Big Apple ... The opening reception will also include a wine tasting, live music on the patio, swing and ragtime dancing and a Harlem Renaissance planetarium show. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Talks to honor key Boston role in black history Oct 17, 2007
"There was a Harlem Renaissance.". The celebration kicked off yesterday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the State House, where Patrick, the state's first black governor, signed autographs for middle school students and reflected on the Niagara Movement and Boston's civil rights past. (Boston Globe)
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)
All Star Quilters sets program on Monday Oct 11, 2007
Then a lecture on Jacksonville's Connections to the Harlem Renaissance will be presented by Hope McMath, director of education at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Mandarin regional library on 3330 Kori Road. Jax Reads is a citywide program designed to encourage the entire community to read and discuss one book in September and October. (Florida Times-Union)
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)
Even at 4-0, Patriots see room for improvement Oct 3, 2007
Nor has any NFL team since the Harlem Renaissance. LOPRESTI. (USA Today -- Sports)
Reginald T. Dogan: Deferred dream makes its debut on 'Insiders' webcast Sep 29, 2007
In his poem "A Dream Deferred," Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes asked the questions: What happens to a dream deferred. Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun. (Pensacola News Journal)
Rep's 'Ain't Misbehavin'' is solid, professional Sep 27, 2007
It celebrates a period in the Harlem Renaissance that's now a memory as well as the genius of a prolific composer who died young but left a brilliant legacy behind. "Ain't Misbehavin: The Fats Waller Musical Show". (North County Times)
Real life plot twists of famous authors Sep 27, 2007
Poet, playwright, novelist, essayist and all-around literary luminary, Langston Hughes achieved fame during the Harlem Renaissance. But before that, Hughes was a struggling young writer, working menial jobs to support his burgeoning poetry habit. (CNN -- Showbiz)
San Diego Rep opens diverse season with 'Ain't Misbehavin' Sep 13, 2007
The season opens Friday with "Ain't Misbehavin': the Fats Waller Musical Show," a celebration of the music of the famed Harlem Renaissance composer and pianist Thomas "Fats" Waller. Choreographed and directed by Patdro Harris, it stars "Living Single" television star TC Carson. (North County Times)
Zane's World: Fisky Business Sep 13, 2007
Despite Waltons position that she would keep the collection intact and offer equal display time for Fisks Van Vechten Gallery (named for a Harlem Renaissance patron and a personal friend of OKeeffe and Stieglitz) and the new Crystal Bridges museum in Bentonville, she has been characterized as an opportunistic culture raider by both the mainstream art establishment and the OKeeffe Museum (although in the case of the museum, only because of its own claim to be the sole agent capable of... (Santa Fe Reporter)
Students fuse lessons in performing and visual arts for biennial exhibit Aug 26, 2007
" The exhibit reflects how teachers have been working together to better plan and complement their lessons. The creative work they directed merges both subjects and their respective histories. As an example, one group of students studied and mimicked Romare Bearden, a 19th-century artist and product of Jazz Era and the Harlem Renaissance. Another group of students focused their camera lenses on downtown Athens, in order to photograph the feel of the music scene in this city including R.E.M.... (Athens Banner-Herald)
NYC drummers face 'new Harlemites' Aug 12, 2007
"They call this the new Harlem Renaissance bringing in people who are able to pay for these properties, who push out people who can't, like schoolteachers and municipal workers," said James David Manning, the 60-year-old Baptist pastor of the Atlah World Missionary Church, a block from the park. The original "Harlem Renaissance" was a flowering of literature, art, theater and music during the 1920s and 1930s, when black writers, artists and musicians became famous from Langston Hughes and Zora... (USA Today)
Boffo Broadway Kids Aug 4, 2007
Dubbed "a collection of pieces inspired by the Harlem Renaissance," this show is simply remarkable and a little breathtaking. "Joint" features a cadre of kids ages 8 to 14 who put on a show more real and less "stagey" than "High School Musical.". (Fox News)
Landmark exhibit traces photography’s evolution in American culture Jul 27, 2007
African-American photographer James VanDerZee captures the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance in his elegant portraits of wealthy Harlem denizens as in The Tall and Short of It and Portrait of a Young Woman. Street photographer Helen Levitt pro-jects a different look of Harlem through her candid images of tenement children and urban street life. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
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)
'New England White' explores shades of elitism and murder Jul 5, 2007
Her grandmother ran a famous salon during the Harlem Renaissance, and Julia's mother remains a radical firebrand, living in exile in France. At 42, Julia seems still in recovery from her abusive college relationship with Zant. (USA Today -- Life)
What's there Jun 30, 2007
That archive contains the papers of expatriate African-American cultural figures, including legendary entertainer Josephine Baker, as well as those of political activists, from Harlem Renaissance figure Louise Thompson Patterson to Elaine Brown, the only woman to head the Black Panther Party. The oldest part of the archive is the Southern History section, which includes the papers of Atlanta business leaders such as Asa Candler and Robert W. Woodruff and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ralph... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
ISOLATED MAN Jun 20, 2007
" Rampersad, 65, was born in Trinidad and in 1965 came to the United States, where he fell in love, as Ellison had done, with the masters of American literature -- Emerson, Whitman and Melville. He wrote literary criticism while building an academic career, but found that a biographer's work -- the long hours of library research, the thrill of discovering "little nuggets" among boxes of archival materials -- more satisfying. His wife, Marvina White, is a former lecturer of English at Stanford... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Click here to read more. Jun 18, 2007
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)
Riverdale school accused of racism Jun 17, 2007
Dear commenter wrote on Jun 13, 2007 5:44 PM:" They can celebrate the many contributions black americans have made to the culture of America. Play some black music, get a gospel choir, make an exhibit on George Washinton Carver, have a poetry reading from the Harlem Renaissance. For hispanics, you could serve their food or invite their dancers. There is an endless possibility of options and nothing merits the travesty mentioned above. ". Sorry folks. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
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)
