12 Reasons To Spend Your Summer In Harlem: The Best Community In The World
By HWM Summer in Harlem doesn’t ask for permission—it throws open its windows, blasts soul classics from car…
How a dinner gala started the Harlem Renaissance
The gala dinner held at New York City’s Civic Club in 1924 was nominally in honor of Jessie…
Defiant Haven Of Renaissance Glamour, 1920-2019
By HWM In December 1920, Edward “Ed” H. Wilson, an entrepreneur from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, unveiled the Hotel Olga…
Harlem Renaissance Rebel In Senegal’s Cinematic Revolution
By HWM Ousmane Sembène—born in 1923 in Senegal’s lush Casamance region, and hailed by the Los Angeles Times as one…
The Musical That Sparked the Harlem Renaissance: Shuffle Along
By all accounts, the musical Shuffle Along should have never succeeded. An all Black production prospering in an…
Acute Inflections performs intimate Jazz set at Sankofa Haus in the South Bronx – Bronx Times
Stepping from the frigid temperatures and snow covered streets of the South Bronx into Sankofa Haus, felt like…
A Black Literary Salon And Bar Is Coming To Bed-Stuy
Source: Variety / Getty A rebirth of the Renaissance is coming to Brooklyn next year, and it’s all…
Christie’s $689M New York Sales Week Led by Rothko, Picasso and Monet
Adrien Meyer sells the top lot of The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G Ross Weis, Mark…