Art of the Day: "Beau of the Ball," 1926, photograph by James Van Der Zee (1886-1983) #HarlemRenaissance
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Discover the real Langston Hughes in My America. Randal M. Jelks reveals how the Harlem Renaissance leader used art as a joyous act of resistance against fascism and inequality. A timely look at how Hughes’s pursuit of justice can guide our democracy today. ✍️✨ #LangstonHughes #HarlemRenaissance
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The Harlem Renaissance was not random brilliance.
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Black Excellist: 10 Things to Know About Countee Cullen (Harlem Renaissance Poet)
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#BlackHistory365 #CounteeCullen #HarlemRenaissance #OnThisDay #BlackExcellence #PoetryMatters #LiteraryLegacy #NewYorkUniversity #PhiBetaKappa
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Countee Cullen vs. Claude McKay: Legibility, Radicalism & Legacy
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📚 On This Day in Black History – March 28, 1925 📚
Today we celebrate Countee Cullen, one of the most brilliant voices of the Harlem Renaissance, whose excellence in both academics and literature defined a historic year in his life.
#BlackHistory365 #CounteeCullen #HarlemRenaissance #OnThisDay
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Portrait of American artist Beauford Delaney (1901–1979) by Carl Van Vechten.
#OnThisDay in 1979, American modernist painter Beauford Delaney, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, died in Paris. He was 77.
Photo by Carl Van Vechten
#OTD #ArtSky #BeaufordDelaney #HarlemRenaissance
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Wonderful . . . was just learning more about Fauset's involvement as an organizer and translator at the Second Pan-African Congress in 1921. Here's her report in The Crisis, starting p12
#harlemrenaissance #womenshistory #blackhistory #herstory #ushistory
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The Wild Party (City Center, NYC) closes Sun, 3/29
The musical is based on Joseph Moncure March’s scandalous 1928 narrative poem, a once-banned Jazz Age tale of excess and desire that later inspired two different stage adaptations.
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#HarlemRenaissance
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Jordan Donica and Cast
Photo by Joan Marcus
Review: www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/03_1...
Y'all,
The Wild Party (City Center, NYC) closes Sun, 3/29
#Broadway #Theater # BlackSky #HarlemRenaissance
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Y'all,
The Wild Party (City Center, NYC) closes Sun, 3/29
This vivid revival features Jasmine Amy Rogers and Jordan Donica as vaudeville performers Queenie and Burrs, Adrienne Warren as starlet Kate, Jelani Alladin as her beau Black, and Tonya Pinkins as diva Dolores Montoya. #HarlemRenaissance
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Just watched Anthony Mackie in an early role diving deep into the secret lives of Harlem Renaissance legends. #filmsky #blackgaysky
🖤🌟 Check it out here: youtu.be/uiV17c9Qmt0 #HarlemRenaissance #AnthonyMackie #LiteraryLegends
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🎨 #WilliamHJohnson, African-American artist of the #HarlemRenaissance, was #BOTD 18 March 1901. #Art #Painting
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Founded in 2007, The Brothers Network continues to amplify world-class art and culture created and curated by Black men youtu.be/SwYqC4npTqQ?...
#arts #literature #blackbeyondboundaries #harlemrenaissance #blackarts #theater #jamesbaldwin @inquirer.com @aalbc.bsky.social @midamericaarts.bsky.social
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Meet TBN March 2026 Brother of the Month, Kelly Richards. The Brothers’ Network honors leadership and excellence in the arts and humanities.
#brilliant #blackmen #library #leadership #harlemrenaissance #blackbeyondboundaries @freelibrary.bsky.social
www.thebrothersnetwork.art
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#BlackHistoryMonth
#100thAnniversary
Day 28.
#TheNicholasBrothers were an #AfricanAmerican tap dance duo of incomparable skill.
They became stars in the jazz circuit during the #HarlemRenaissance and were successes in stage, television & film.
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Just started reading Home To Harlem by Claude McKay. Part of my Library of America Harlem Renaissance volume. I've read McKay before: Romance In Marseille. He's a wonderful writer!
#booksky #claudemckay #harlemrenaissance
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A photo of Walter F. White with a quote: "I am not white. There is nothing within my mind and heart which tempts me to think I am."
Last day of #BlackHistoryMonth & I offer Walter F. White, journalist, novelist, & essayist during the #HarlemRenaissance. He led the NAACP for about 25 years. He challenged segregation & investigated lynchings & riots. He had white skin, blue eyes, & was able to “pass” when doing investigations. 1/3
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A book entitled "Paintings in Proust", by Eric Karpeles. Cover art shows a detail image from a 19th century painting with a lady seated lady at a table. She is dressed in black, wearing a big black hat, arms resting on the table. Her head is turned our way and she is smiling.
A book cover with the title "Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America". Cover art has a bright yellow-green background and shows a black man with gray hair seated backward on a wooden chair. He is in three-quarter profile with arms folded and resting on the chair, which is bright red. He's wearing a black vest and pants, a white shirt and a dark tie. He is looking slightly to the side, and appears to be in thought.
A book entitled "Polynesian Tattooing", by Alan Taylor. Cover shows a 19th century color image of a balding Maori man with extensive symmetrical blue face tattoos on his chin, nose, temples and around his eyes. He is seen in partial profile, looking ahead. He is also wearing long earrings from his pierced earlobes, and a necklace with a pendant carved stone which is decorated with a face.
A book entitled "Ascending Chaos: The Art of Masami Teraoka 1966-2006". The cover art shows a rather nightmarish scene - four suitably chaotic figures (two male, two female), plus a baby, and an orange-spotted octopus. They are all in a swirl in close proximity, and apparently underwater. One female has an old-fashioned, golden plate-style halo, the other, who may be a ghost, appears benevolent but has two bolts of fire shooting from her head. One of the men is swimming, with his long black hair streaming behind him. The other man is lying down and may be deceased. The baby is partially hidden, and appears to be held gently by the ghost-woman.
Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#artbooks #booksky #bookselling #Proust #HarlemRenaissance #AfricanAmerican #tattoos #polynesia #BodyArt #MasamiTeraoka
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A scene from the play Meek Mose by Frank Wilson.
#BlackHistoryMonth Frank Wilson wrote & directed plays, sang, & acted during the #HarlemRenaissance. He started out in black vaudeville but moved on to Broadway. He wrote the play Meek Mose, which focused on Blacks whose land was taken by Whites wanting to build a cotton mill.
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A picture of Rudolph Fisher with a quote: "In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty."
#BlackHistoryMonth Rudolph Fisher wrote novels, short stories, & columns during the #HarlemRenaissance. He was also a doctor & radiologist. His writings focused on Black & White people in Harlem. He wrote the first detective novel in the US that featured only Black characters.
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👇 คลิกอ่านเรื่องราวของศิลปินหญิงผู้เปลี่ยนโลกผ่าน และร่วมฉลอง Black History Month หรือเดือนประวัติศาสตร์ชาวผิวดำผ่านบทความนี้ได้เลย
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#TheNoizeชวนฟัง #TheNoizeMagazine #HarlemRenaissance #BlackQueerArtist #BluesMusic #BlackHistoryMonth
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เมื่อดนตรีบลูส์ไม่ใช่แค่เรื่องความเศร้า แต่มันคือ "เสียงตะโกน" ของผู้หญิงผิวดำที่รักผู้หญิงในยุค 1920s 🎷🏳️🌈
ย้อนรอย 4 ไอคอนแซฟฟิคแห่งยุค Harlem Renaissance ที่ใช้เสียงเพลงปฏิวัติอัตลักษณ์และท้าทายโลกที่กดขี่
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#HarlemRenaissance #BlackHistoryMonth
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A photo of Anne Spencer with her poem titled "Lady, Lady": Lady, Lady, I saw your face, Dark as night withholding a star . . . A chisel fell, or it might have been You had borne so long the yoke of men. Lady, Lady, I saw your hands, Twisted, awry, like crumbled roots, Bleached poor white in a sudsy tub, Wrinkled and drawn from your rub-a-dub. Lady, Lady, I saw your heart, And altered there in its darksome place Were the tongues of flames the ancients knew Where the good God sits to spangle through.
#BlackHistoryMonth Anne Spencer was a poet and activist and was considered part of the #HarlemRenaissance, even though she lived in Virginia. Her poems were printed in anthologies, and she was the first Black woman whose work appeared in the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry.
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Sterling Brown's poem titled Ma Rainey: I When Ma Rainey Comes to town, Folks from anyplace Miles aroun’, From Cape Girardeau, Poplar Bluff, Flocks in to hear Ma do her stuff; Comes flivverin’ in, Or ridin’ mules, Or packed in trains, Picknickin’ fools. . . . That’s what it’s like, Fo’ miles on down, To New Orleans delta An’ Mobile town, When Ma hits Anywheres aroun’. II Dey comes to hear Ma Rainey from de little river settlements, From blackbottorn cornrows and from lumber camps; Dey stumble in de hall, jes a-laughin’ an’ a-cacklin’, Cheerin’ lak roarin’ water, lak wind in river swamps. An’ some jokers keeps deir laughs a-goin’ in de crowded aisles, An’ some folks sits dere waitin’ wid deir aches an’ miseries, Till Ma comes out before dem, a-smilin’ gold-toofed smiles An’ Long Boy ripples minors on de black an’ yellow keys. III O Ma Rainey, Sing yo’ song; Now you’s back Whah you belong, Git way inside us, Keep us strong. . . . O Ma Rainey, Li’l an’ low; Sing us ’bout de hard luck Roun’ our do’; Sing us ’bout de lonesome road We mus’ go. . . . IV I talked to a fellow, an’ the fellow say, “She jes’ catch hold of us, somekindaway. She sang Backwater Blues one day: ‘It rained fo’ days an’ de skies was dark as night, Trouble taken place in de lowlands at night. ‘Thundered an’ lightened an’ the storm begin to roll Thousan’s of people ain’t got no place to go. ‘Den I went an’ stood upon some high ol’ lonesome hill, An’ looked down on the place where I used to live.’ An’ den de folks, dey natchally bowed dey heads an’ cried, Bowed dey heavy heads, shet dey moufs up tight an’ cried, An’ Ma lef’ de stage, an’ followed some de folks outside.” Dere wasn’t much more de fellow say: She jes’ gits hold of us dataway.
A photo of Sterling Brown, professor, poet, critic, & folklorist during the Harlem Renaissance & beyond.
#BlackHistoryMonth Sterling Brown was a professor, poet, critic, & folklorist during the #HarlemRenaissance & beyond. He taught at many universities, settling at Howard. His poetry focused on race in the US, and was influenced by music, including jazz, blues, and spirituals.
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Jessie's living her best life during the #HarlemRenaissance. I love that it features historical figures.
I'm lovin' this story and I don't know where it's goin'.
#WEBDubois, #LangstonHughes, #MaryBethune, and more.
#BookClub #Harlem #Read...
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A photo of Eulalie Spence with text: When questioned about her plays avoiding racial and other issues, she told one interviewer that “hammering at an old illness and old injury, whether it is of eighty years, one hundred years or one thousand, does no good at all. It’s defeating.” In a written answer to this question, she wrote, “We go to the theatre for entertainment, not to have old fires and hates rekindled.”
#BlackHistoryMonth Eulalie Spence was a writer, director, actress, & playwright during the #HarlemRenaissance. She won several competitions & wrote mostly comedies, along with 3 dramatic plays, & insisted on using Black dialect. She steered clear of racial themes. #booksky #blackbooksky
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