The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author and noted scholar, is the City College of New York's 2025 Langston Hughes ...

He is the author of The Fugitive Race: Minority Writers Resisting Whiteness (U Press of Mississippi, 2002), and his recent essays on gender and violence in the Harlem Renaissance have appeared in ...

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her ...