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1 giorno fa · Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (2020) "You Don't Know Us Negroes" (2022) Film, television, and radio. In 1935 and 1936, Zora Neale Hurston shot documentary footage as part of her fieldwork in Florida and Haiti.
5 giorni fa · The Miami Herald. A guest stop to read parts of the “FIRE!” magazine at entrance of the Silhouette exhibition inside The Wolfsonian - FIU on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. “Silhouettes” highlights the beauty of book and magazine covers with the same reverence of paintings and sculptures.
3 giorni fa · Claude McKay (born September 15, 1889, Nairne Castle, Jamaica, British West Indies—died May 22, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was a Jamaican-born American poet and novelist who was one of the leading voices of the Harlem Renaissance. His book Home to Harlem (1928) was the most popular novel written by a Black American author to that time.
4 giorni fa · Dorothy West (born June 2, 1907, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 16, 1998, Boston) was an American writer who explored the aspirations and conflicts of middle-class African Americans in many of her works and was one of the last surviving members of the prominent group of black artists, writers, and musicians who flourished in New York City’s Harlem district during the Harlem ...
3 giorni fa · The houses originally cost about $1.5 million in total to build, which equates to about $45 million today. The row of McKim, Mead and White townhouses on Strivers Row. Despite being designed by ...
4 giorni fa · Ilfenesh Hadera, Godfather of Harlem (Image credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.). When describing Godfather of Harlem season 4, MGM Plus states: "In season 4, Bumpy Johnson (Whitaker) continues his bloody war for control of Harlem against New York’s Mafia families, while contending with the emergence of a potential rival in newly arrived Black gangster Frank Lucas.
5 giorni fa · That is one way to explain the popularity of Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus stories, which were first published in 1881. The violence and comeuppance that characterize these tales, frequently with larger animals (whites) being bested by the smaller Brer Rabbit (blacks), were passed over as readers focused more on the fanciful portrayals of imaginary animal worlds.
