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A Black History Month Celebration:
Women of the Harlem Renaissance, with Music by Duke Ellington & James P. Johnson

In Jazz Age Harlem, the rise of black culture produced talents like Langston Hughes and Duke Ellington. But this ‘Black Renaissance’ wasn’t limited to men. A largely unsung group of black women were a driving force in the movement, writing poetry, managing literary journals, and holding salons that nurtured Harlem's great social revolution of the 1920s.

Flappers in Harlem
Photo by James Van Der Zee