Chick Webb, The King of Swing
It is important to acknowledge that Black people, wherever they are located in the world, are of African origin because,
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Harlem Renaissance
Radical Blackness and Mutual Comradeship at 409 Edgecombe
In the first half of the twentieth century, Sugar Hill was the premier Black neighborhood in New York City that
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Harlem as Setting and Symbol
Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting
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Alain Locke: Father of the Harlem Renaissance
Sometime during the Great Depression, a young working-class Black man acquired a 1925 first-edition copy of The New Negro: An
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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes
The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in
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