The exciting new groundbreaking book by George M. Johnson, "Flamboyants: the Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known," is ...

In homage to “Empress of the Blues” Bessie Smith, Mayfield delivered a performance of “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” that was as ...

Wearing sequins, rhinestones, pearls — and sometimes nothing — Josephine Baker lit up the ... in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance. From there she went to Paris and onward through Europe ...

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