Although they were illegal, drag balls were considered safe places for gay men to socialize. One of the highlights of the ...
Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.
From the Harlem Renaissance to modern improvisation, jazz has always been connected to wellness and self-expression.
The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...
Langston Hughes, the celebrated poet of the Harlem Renaissance, was deeply inspired by the music of Duke Ellington.
The Harlem Renaissance made Harlem a hub of Black creativity in the 1920s and 1930s. In jazz clubs, literary salons, and speakeasies, Black queer artists expressed themselves, challenged norms, and ...
Houston theater gets set to ring in the holidays with some traditional favorites and roaring new works. But for those holiday ...
A one-time-only performance of the George Gray/Sharif Kales Quintet called Jazz: A Music of the Spirit is on Sunday, November 9 at 4:40 p.m. at the Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn.
The story of the country's first all-Black magazine, born out of the Harlem Renaissance, brings to the life the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and others.
Jazz music has soared across the globe, and these cities are the ultimate spots to experience just how diverse this ...
Langston Hughes, one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance, often described his poetry as “jazz written on the page.” He was deeply inspired by the rhythms, improvisation, and spirit of ...
Originally a Dutch settlement, it was once a stronghold of Jewish luminaries.In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance – an ...