Book signing in Los Angeles:

April 1, 2009 Reception for book signing Paule Marshall

5:00 Reception
7:00 Book signing Paule Marshall

Eso Won Bookstore and Black Women for Wellness are collaborating to welcome and celebrate Paule Marshall publishing Triangular Road. Triangular Road is a memoir of Ms Marshall's life during the Harlem Renaissance ( ( Read more... )

Thought I would share. AUGUSTA SAVAGE was a sculptress around the Harlem Renaissance. She helped organize the Harlem Arts Guild. I've always loved sculpture, so I thought I'd share.

From "'scuse Me While I Lindyhop"The lindy hop is generally said to have been ‘invented’ in the Savoy ballroom in Harlem in the late twenties. It’s premier dancer, "Shorty" Snowden, threw off his partner in a competition before a large press contingency and performed a brief "breakaway" of fancy footwork that wowed the audience. Referring to the ( Read more... )

Lifting as We Climb Symposium ( Read more... )

Harlem: 1900-1940.

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While most of us are familiar with James Weldon Johnson (hopefully) for penning the lyrics to The Negro National Anthem (his brother J. Rosamund composed it), or for his masterpiece (in my eyes if no one else's shoot!) The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man, he contributed so much more than that. He founded the first high school for Black students ( Read more... )

Im taking a 6 week American Lit survey over the summer (Im an English major so Im not having any trouble with the class itself) and we have to do group projects... I am in the Harlem Renaissance group which is cool cause its something interesting and Ive taken an African American lit class so Im pretty well prepared.. were supposed to present on ( Read more... )