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A Visual History of the Harlem Renaissance

Text by Reece Taylor Williams and Veronica Chambers. Edited by Marcelle Hopkins, Eve Lyons and Veronica Chambers. Designed and Produced by Alice Fang and Antonio de Luca. Archival Research by Lisa Dalsimer, Allyson Torrisi and Dahlia Kozlowsky. New York Times
The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that we’ve never published, showing the people and the art that they created.

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Black Studies Pioneer John H. Bracey Jr. Joins the Ancestors

Walter Hudson Diverse Issues in Higher Education
John H. Bracey Jr.—an architect of Black studies—who helped to create one of the nation’s first doctoral programs in African American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died over the weekend. Bracey was 81.
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