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When Harlem Welcomed Castro And Cubans, NY, 1960

When Cuba’s delegation arrived in New York City in September 1960 to attend the United Nations General Assembly, the Eisenhower administration had already stopped Cuba’s sugar exports to the U.S. Continue reading

Langston Hughes To E. Ethelred Brown At The Schomburg In Harlem (Audio)

On September 28, 1954, poet/playwright/activist Langston Hughes wrote to Ethelred Brown, the Jamaica-born founder of the Harlem Community Church, to inquire about his faith and the distinct beliefs his church kept for a series he was planning to write in the Chicago Defender.Continue reading

Congrats, Artists Meet Fundraising Goal To Rent Langston Hughes’ Harlem Home (Video)

A group of artists and writers have met a fundraising goal to rent and preserve a Harlem brownstone that was the home of Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Continue reading

Harlem Art Collective And You Too Can Raise Money To Renovate Langston Hughes’ Harlem Home

The Harlem brownstone in which Harlem poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist Langston Hughes spent the last 20 years of his life is now empty, unoccupied and in disrepair. But that may change soon. Continue reading

Harlem’s Historic Benta’s Funeral Home Diversifies Its Services

Some of New York’s more successful mortuary families from Harlem to Hollis have adapted their approach to funerals and diversified their business holdings.Continue reading

Mackey Twins “Letters From Langston” Event In Harlem

Art and literature lovers alike will converge on the Mackey Twins Art Gallery in Mount Vernon, New York, on Saturday, June 25, 2016. Continue reading

Props: ‘Montage Of A Dream Deferred’ 1951, Signed By Langston Hughes

A wonderful Harlem collectible found on Amazon, a signed copy of Montage Of A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes in 1951 published by Henry Hall and Company, New York. Continue reading

Arnaud “Arna” Wendell Bontemps Harlem NY 1923-1930 (video)

Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973 was a Harlem poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance. Continue reading

George Wilson Becton The “Dancing Evangelist” Of Harlem 1925-1933

George Wilson Becton was born in Clarksville, Texas, and died in 1933. He was also known as The "dancing evangelist" of Harlem was considered the "first of the colorful cult leaders in Harlem" in the 1930's.Continue reading

Salters Scene: Black History Month At the African Burial Ground

[caption id="attachment_61298" align="aligncenter" width="450"] David Mills[/caption] By Udo Salters On Saturday February 7^th, the African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower Manhattan featured David Mills' dramatic performance of Langston Hughes' work for Black History Month. Continue reading

Shop Harlem: “Fire!! Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists” (Paperback)

Originally published in 1926, this periodical was re-issued in limited quantity in 1985. Harlemite by Wallace Thurman, Editor and contributor, it contains work by many of the best-known and most celebrated artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance....Continue reading