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 ...

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.