Tag: Harlem Renaissance

January 19, 2013

Harlem Renaissance Map and Poster Guide

  Tony E   No comments

Ephemera Press has a really nice series of CultureMap illustrated map-poster-guides, including this Harlem Renaissance Map and Poster Guide which covers the rich art and cultural history of Harlem, New York.

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September 17, 2012

New Novel of Harlem Renaissance by Claude McKay is Found

  Mico HarlemTrends   No comments

New mnuscript by Claude McKay has been discovered. McKey was a Jamaican-born writer and political activist who died in 1948.  He influenced black writers including Langston Hughes. His work includes the 1919 protest poem “If We Must Die,” (quoted by

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January 11, 2012

Life Upon These Shores

  Mico HarlemTrends   No comments

Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 chronicles the African American contribution to America, beginning with the first Africans to reach these shores—thirty Africans, as part of Vasco Núñez de Balboa’s “expedition, which “discovered” the Pacific Ocean in 1513—and

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