Jeffrey Stewart was a graduate student when he first encountered Alain Locke. College students discover and forget historical figures every day, but something about Locke intrigued Stewart, today a ...

Isaac Julien has a history of working with the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance. So it makes sense that his latest commission, for Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation, circled back on writer, philosopher ...

AAPG copy Purchased from the Arts Libraries Endowment. Section I. The Education of Alain Locke -- 1. A Death and a Birth -- 2. A Black Victorian Childhood -- 3. Child God and Black Aesthete -- 4. An ...

Alain Locke never lived in Harlem. He was not an artist or editor. But in 1925, the Harvard graduate and the first Black Rhodes scholar in 1907, conceived a work that would capture one of the most ...

Alain Locke is remembered as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance largely for assembling “The New Negro,” a 1925 anthology that immortalized a small group of young writers—Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, ...

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The late philosopher Locke (1885–1954) tracks the evolving aesthetics of Black art in the first half of the 20th century in this dynamic collection. In “Enter the New Negro,” Locke introduces the ...

This article includes links that may result in a small affiliate share for purchased products, which helps support independent LGBTQ+ media. Langston Hughes, Odessa Madre, and Alain Locke. Photos: ...