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

Launched by WBM and the Renaissance New York Hotel, the Legacy Ball of Harlem ill take place at the storied hotel on May 5.

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 ...

Josephine Baker (1906-1975) found fame in France in the 1920s as the American expat who danced in “a mere belt of bananas.” Ernest Hemingway described her as ...