Veteran author Victoria Christopher Murray returns with her first solo work of historical fiction, “Harlem Rhapsody.” ...
Henry Minton opened what would become an historic landmark in the story of Black music and culture -- now, after nearly a ...
Before long, Bentley was headlining at the Ubangi Club, Clam House, and Cotton Club ... helped shape the sound and aesthetics ...
Nearly a century after the Harlem Renaissance began ... "You'll see Duke Ellington performing at the Cotton Club and Cab Calloway dancing while he's conducting an orchestra," said Denise Murrell ...
Gladys Bentley, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance ... Drag performers often backed her up at the Ubangi Club. She also appeared at the the Apollo Theater and the Cotton Club. In his 1945 ...
This sassy American jazz musical relocates Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night to Harlem’s Cotton Club in the 1940s and sets it to the irresistible songs of Duke Ellington. The story is simplified to ...
In the famous New York neighborhood, a center of African American culture and home of the cultural flowering known as the Harlem Renaissance ... as a Book of the Month Club selection.