Josephine Baker reached the height of her career a mere five years after being catapulted to stardom on October 2, 1925, the day that La Revue Nègre opened at the Théatre des Champs Elysées in Paris. Between 1925 and 1930, her...

In September 2016, I wrote about the impending relaunch of the Bal Colonial, which was commonly known as le Bal Nègre. The club was scheduled to reopen on March 21, 2017 with the name "Le Bal Nègre." But protests caused the owner to...

As a professor of art at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Lee A. Ransaw developed an honors course called "The Arts of the Harlem Renaissance." Students had to have an accumulative “B” average to enroll. They were required to...