Harlem Renaissance

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Art and culture inspired by the Harlem Renaissance

Duke Ellington performed regularly here, and Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday both launched their careers at the venue’s amateur night. You can say that the Apollo Theater was the ‘Motown’ before Motown. Today, the theater stands as an artifact on the bustling 125th street.

Dance Hip Hop New York

Madonna

Billy Holiday The Jackson Five Harlem Nights

Apollo Theater

Michigan Duke Ellington

Black History Month: Scenes From The Harlem Renaissance

Still setting the standard for black art and thought.

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Vintage Black Glamour

Black Cotillion ball Harlem 1940s

Vocalists of the Harlem Renaissance

Langston Hughes (1902-1967). Playwright, novelist, and poet who due to his African American themes made him a primary contributor to the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920's.

The Harlem Renaissance

James Weldon Johnson (Lift Every Voice and Sing)

Stuart Davis, Jazz Age and Harlem Renaissance

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Richmond Barthe Artwork | Richmond Barthé, 1901-1989 James Richmond Barthé was an African-American sculptor known for his many public works, including the Toussaint L’Ouverture Monument in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and a sculpture of Rose McClendon for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.

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Cotton Club

THE MOB, FASHION, OMERTA...

Harlem Renaissance…1920’s

Langston Hughes' born Feb. 1, 1902. "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"