Black artists, musicians, writers, and reformers flocked to the neighborhood of Harlem in the early 20th century, creating a ...

Langston Hughes was an author and poet who was part of the Harlem Renaissance movement ... French word for a type of grass. Music legend Ray Charles is credited for creating soul music and has ...

Author and journalist Charles M. Blow will leave The New ... Gates wrote in the Friday press release. A leader in the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes was a prominent writer and civil rights activist.

The team's stated goal is to "spread goodwill worldwide," and it has routinely contributed to basketball’s growth and society’s betterment.

Midway through Black History Month, it’s worth noting the relative brevity of Black film history—the very first major-studio feature to be directed by an African-American didn’t come along until 1969, ...

Veteran author Victoria Christopher Murray returns with her first solo work of historical fiction, “Harlem Rhapsody.” ...

A pop-up exhibit highlighting the intersectionality between the rich history of both the Black and LGBTBQ+ communities during ...

The book, out Tuesday, is a fictionalization of the lives of many of the Harlem Renaissance’s key figures, including Hughes, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the woman credited as the whole ...

Luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance and beyond are celebrated and memorialized in 25 commemorative plaques that now bear ...

Wilson performed a lively, rollicking version of Quincy's Ray Charles track "Let The Good Times Roll" alongside singer and composer Jacob Collier.

The "Soul Bossa Nova" artist, who worked with acts including Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, Miles Davis, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and Aretha Franklin, died in November at 91 years old of ...