When he sang ‘God done shed his grace on thee,’ he acknowledged this country was blessed from the start.

More idealistically, a label titled “Benin Court Art at the Met” informs us that Alain Locke, godfather of the Harlem Renaissance, wanted “the genius of African art to be widely accessible in a public ...

On June 10, 2004, Ray Charles, often called the “Father of Soul,” died from complications from liver disease in his Beverly Hills home. Charles was born on September 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia.

Rangel was a resilient, unapologetically, but contradictorily Black warrior, and the St. Aloysius tribute was as much an ...

A survey of art and design from the 1940s at the Philadelphia Museum of Art reveals how creativity flourished out of hardship ...

Schomburg moved to New York in 1891 and, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926, sold his collection of approximately 4,000 books and pamphlets to the New York Public Library.

Schomburg moved to New York in 1891 and, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926, sold his collection of approximately 4,000 books and pamphlets to the New York Public Library.

With Harlem Shuffle, ... Ray Carney, owns a furniture store on Morningside Avenue and 125 th Street, a bid for middle-class respectability that repudiates the legacy of his criminal father.

Former Rep. Charles Rangel, the longtime N.Y. congressman, was laid to rest Friday with a funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.