April is National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate the beauty and power of poetry. This monthlong celebration, established ...

British artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien has spent over two decades pushing the boundaries of visual storytelling.

Maya Angelou is the second poet in history to read a poem during a presidential inauguration; Robert Frost was the first ...

What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

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Author Victoria Christopher Murray will talk about her latest novel 'Harlem Rhapsody' at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.

A signed first edition of Claude McKay’s non-fiction book, “Harlem: Negro Metropolis,” will be on display and available for purchase at this year’s New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.

A convicted drug dealer claims that being deported would damage his career as a poet. Cocaine dealer Evan Holmes, who has 13 convictions for 22 offences, has argued that being sent back to Jamaica ...

If you are white and are reading this vignette, don’t take it for granted that all Harlem is a slum. It isn’t. There are big apartment houses up on the hill, Sugar Hill, and up by city college ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Rome Flynn is the newest star to join the hit series “Godfather of Harlem.” He is playing the role of the iconic Frank Lucas. If that name isn’t ringing a bell, Lucas was who Denzel ...