Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!

2002-04-06T04:35:37-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/7c5/20020406043601001_hd.jpgAs part of an ongoing series on American writers, first lady Laura Bush hosted ...

Harlem was not only the center of a renaissance in African-American literature and culture in the 1920s, writes Mason Stokes, but also a nexus for the exploration of homosexuality among black writers ...

This collection, which dates from circa 1901-1940, contains 37 books from African-American authors associated with the Harlem Renaissance. These materials were purchased in support of the exhibit "The ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is displaying “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” beginning on Feb. 25 until July 28, featuring some 160 works by artists of the Harlem Renaissance and ...

In A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt (St. Martin’s, Feb.), the Bowdoin College literature professor chronicles the life of novelist Charles W. Chesnutt. How did ...

WASHINGTON — The White House’s stately East Room seemed more like an intimate salon Wednesday as First Lady Laura Bush played host to a lively discussion of the literary and cultural legacy of the ...

The prospectus summarizes the films and short documentaries that will be included in the project produced by Shoga Films, and offers an in-depth look at the unsung queer figures of the Harlem ...

"Zora and Langston" is a fascinating and lively story of two iconoclastic writers whose shared passion for creating work that disrupted literary conventions was complicated by the controlling ...

2002-04-06T04:35:37-05:00 https://ximage.c-spanvideo.org ...

A guest stop to read parts of the “FIRE!” magazine at entrance of the Silhouette exhibition inside The Wolfsonian - FIU on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. Carl Juste ...