Review: ‘The Personal Librarian’ author tackles 1920s New York in ‘Harlem Rhapsody’
If you’re a fan of historical fiction, which half of that is most important to you: the history? Or the fiction? It’s entertaining to encounter actual people and events in a novel, where what we ...
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Back to the 1920s: North students learn about a speakeasy and Prohibition
An old basement in Columbus North High School may as well be a time machine thanks to the creativity of several students and an Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher.
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Joplin museum honors Langston Hughes with new exhibit
A new exhibit at the Joplin History Museum is dedicated to Joplin native and African American poet, Langston Hughes. “He went ...
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The relationship at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance
NPR's Pien Huang talks with Victoria Christopher Murray, author of Harlem Rhapsody, a novel that serves as a love letter to the heart of Black creativity and possibility in the 1920s.
Harlem Swing Dance Society preserves neighborhood's historic Lindy Hop dance
This Black History Month, we recognize one of the most extravagant dances ever to exist, the Lindy Hop. The style born during the Harlem Renaissance has evolved to live on in its home neighborhood.