#harlemrenaissance

She wrote of people of culture of truth

Zora Neale Hurston— a name that echoes through the Harlem Renaissance

But tell me… why did the world never crown her with a Nobel Prize?

Maybe the answer is more than history— maybe it’s something we still haven’t learned

Read more softly, deeply 👇 https://worldliterature24.blogspot.com/2026/04/zora-neale-hurston.html

Jazz pulses through open windows. Champagne glitters like false promises. And somewhere in Sugar Hill, a man named Jules Gatsby throws the most extravagant parties Harlem has ever seen—all for a love that might already be lost. DC Cowan’s The Great Gatsby of Sugar Hill reimagines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless masterpiece through the vibrant lens of 1920s Harlem’s Jazz Age, where Black excellence…

Reposted from @schomburgcenter February 1, at 6 PM: Kick off Black History Month with us and celebrate the birthday of the renowned poet and activist Langston Hughes (1901–1967) with an opening reception for our new in-person exhibition, The Ways of Langston Hughes: Griff Davis and Black Artists in the Making. Click the link in our bio to register.

#HarlemRenaissance poet #LangstonHughes (1901–1967) held friendships with artists across generations and disciplines. He forged connections between creative professionals, encouraged the work of others, and helped build a larger network of Black creatives and intellectuals responding to, and shaping, the current events of the time. One friendship began in the classroom at Atlanta University when #photojournalist Griffith Davis (1923–1993) was a student and Hughes a visiting professor.

In this exhibition, Griff Davis’s photography is complemented by archival material from the Schomburg Center’s collections and letters reflecting decades of personal correspondence.

To register, click the link in our bio. #SchomburgCenter @griffdavis418