The pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance wrote about race, love, ordinary Americans and relatable struggles. These phenomenal ...

The Black Comic Book Festival and the Schomburg Literary Festival ran across a full day and featured readings, panel ...

Off the Malls Tours and the Rainbow History Project join forces for a new walking tour celebrating Washington D.C.'s Black queer legacy.

As an heiress and accomplished marketer of Madam C.J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, A’Lelia Walker hosted rising stars of ...

T he Harlem Renaissance fostered a flourishing cultural, intellectual and artistic haven for African American people, including Langston Hughes. At the time of writing, Black consciousness within ...

It is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country — and its most devoted supporters say not enough people know about it. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultu ...

The Schomburg Centennial Festival was a reminder that in Harlem, Black joy, memory, and imagination are not just preserved ...

Langston Hughes was born in 1901 in Joplin, Missouri and was an important figure in the movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of Black cultural and intellectual life in the 1920s. The ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's first collection was started in 1925, and today, it is among the oldest ...

The role of music is significantly emphasised when considering the sociocultural development of the Black Community against the backdrop of important historical events. If music has had such a ...

As the Harlem Renaissance unfolded in the 1920s, few were closer to its hub than the black poet and playwright Langston Hughes and his white friend and mentor, the writer, photographer and patron ...