W.E.B. Du Bois is the other "father" of the Harlem Renaissance. If Langston Hughes captured the heart of the "New Negro," Du Bois captured the mind. (It's okay, one movement can have two daddies.)T...

If Langston Hughes was the prom king of the Harlem Renaissance, you can view Zora Neale Hurston as the prom queen. For a time, the two were close friends and collaborators. They even tried to devel...

If Langston Hughes was the cool kid at school with his own rock band, then Countee Cullen was the quiet improvisario who could play the most complex of violin solos. Not that Cullen wasn't cool. He...

Before Malcolm X, there was Marcus Garvey, the O.G. firebrand and political activist. The first Black Nationalist. And you know someone's important when his name becomes an "—ism." As in: Garveyi...