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The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center celebrates its beginnings, at a moment when Black history is under attack.

Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.” — Don Quixote, Cervantes I have lived ...

Godfather of Harlem Season 4 isn’t just keeping viewers hooked; it’s cementing the show’s place as one of TV’s most raw, relevant, and politically loaded dramas.

Claude McKay’s signed first edition copy of “Harlem: Negro Metropolis” with an inscription to Zora Neale Hurston. Credit: Burnside Rare Books. A signed first edition of Claude McKay’s non ...

Alain Locke and Claude McKay, as imagined by the New York-based artist and writer Aria Dean. Henrot’s musical will feature anthropomorphic animals and nod to commedia dell’arte; Dean’s ...

RITCHIE McKAY: Yeah, thanks for the question. Obviously I played and attended Seattle Pacific, played and attended Pacific university and I loved my experience here. I had a great coach ...

Most of us are not easy kills. We never have been. I can't speak for other groups, but to paraphrase Claude McKay from over a century ago, when Black backs are pressed to the wall, we may die ...

What might have been a full read of “The Great Gatsby” is replaced by students reading the first three chapters, then listening to a TED Talk on the American dream, reading a Claude McKay poem ...

From a farming family in Jamaica to travelling in Europe and Northern Africa, the writer Claude McKay became a key figure in the artistic movement of the 1920s dubbed The Harlem Renaissance.