One of the most important Harlem photographers of the early 20th century wasn’t planning on being a photographer at all. James Van Der Zee moved to Harlem, New York, in 1908 as a young man because he ...

When we think about the Harlem Renaissance, we usually think about it as a literary movement, writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. But the Black cultural revival that spanned from the ...

Artworks on loan from historically Black institutions will make the show one of the largest surveys of the era in nearly 40 years. By Zachary Small Even before joining the Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...