Tag: Harlem

  • The first biography of performing artist, writer, and civil and human rights activist Fredi Washington.

  • A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of “Lovecraft Country” and “The Vanishing Half”

  • Director Rebecca Hall’s recent adaptation of Nella Larsen’s exquisite second novel, Passing (1929), is visually stunning. I had the pleasure of seeing the film on the big screen, during its limited theatrical run and before its Netflix release.

  • Passing Signet Classics (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2021-07-06 (Originally published in 1929) 176 Pages 4-3/16 x 6-3/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780593437841 Ebook ISBN: 9780593439074 Nella Larsen (1891–1964) Introduction by Brit Bennett Nella Larsen’s fascinating exploration of race and identity—the inspiration for the Netflix film directed by Rebecca Hall, starring Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.…

  • In “A Death in Harlem,” famed scholar Karla FC Holloway weaves a mystery in the bon vivant world of the Harlem Renaissance.

  • Debut YA author Natasha Díaz pulls from her personal experience to inform this powerful coming-of-age novel about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds.

  • Elizabeth Acevedo has been empowering Afro-Latinas for years by bringing attention to the various experiences of women of color through her powerful words in poetry.

  • After a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s New York, Harlem’s cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go ”incognegro” for the first time–using his light appearance to pass as a white man–to find the true killer, in this prequel miniseries…

  • In Dark Horse’s “Incognegro: Renaissance,” Zane Pinchback—a young black journalist and New York transplant by way of Tupelo, Mississippi—finds himself smack dab in the middle of Harlem at the height of its Renaissance during the 1920s. Zane, like Incognegro: Renaissance creator Mat Johnson, is a black man with a light enough complexion that people are…

  • I trace Martin’s iconography and ritual performances across Black communities in Latin and Anglo America to reveal the historical relations of power that structure and materialize the networks harnessed by Black peoples to mobilize resources in their varied yet persistent efforts to create meaningful lives out of the fragments of the Middle Passage.