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New USPS Stamps Commemorate Four Harlem Renaissance Figures

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber May 27, 2020May 27, 2020

Stylized in soft hues, new stamps bear the likenesses of novelist Nella Larsen, philosopher Alaine Locke, historian Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, and poet Anne Spencer.

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What It Means to Dream Avant-Garde

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 9, 2018November 12, 2018

To Dream Avant-Garde acknowledges the artistic innovators of today — those who push the cultural status quo in their work.

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Langston Hughes’s Collection of Rent Party Cards from Harlem

Avatar photo by Allison Meier April 4, 2017April 4, 2017

Yale University’s Beinecke Library is displaying Langston Hughes’s collection of rent party cards, which advertised fundraising gatherings in an era of discriminatory Harlem rent.

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A Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance in Maps, Manuscripts, and Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 31, 2017March 31, 2017

Gather Out of Star-Dust at Yale University’s Beinecke Library is a building-wide exhibition of over 300 rare artifacts from the Harlem Renaissance.

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Yale Highlights an Archive of African-American Culture on Its 75th Anniversary

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 8, 2016December 8, 2016

The university is marking 75 years of its James Weldon Johnson Collection, which celebrates the man and his immense legacy.

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A Rare Encounter with an Aaron Douglas Painting that References Slavery’s Past

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 4, 2016January 4, 2016

Lavender and gold silhouettes of soldiers on horseback, waves, and a kneeling figure overlap on the flat plane of Aaron Douglas’s “Let My People Go” (1935–39).

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Virtually Visiting the Harlem Renaissance

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 18, 2015August 18, 2015

When Harlem’s Renaissance Ballroom was demolished this year, the 1920s Jazz Age past of the neighborhood became a little harder to see.

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Faith Ringgold’s Unrealized Tribute to Harlem Literary Life

by Laura C. Mallonee April 28, 2014April 30, 2014

A little-known depiction of Harlem literary life and African-American literature by Faith Ringgold is currently on view at the New York Public Library in its exhibition The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter.

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