Dr. Brenda M. Greene, executive director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, writes about Brooklynite Louise Meriwether, a civil rights movement activist and prolific author and journalist.
Theatre in the X and EgoPo Classic Theater have partnered to produce works centered on the Harlem Renaissance. An adaptation of Fauset's "Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral" is the latest offering.
EgoPo's 2022-2023 Harlem Renaissance Season, co-presented with Theatre in the X, will close with the world premiere theatrical staging of Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun in the month of her 141st birthday.
In “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois,” by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, history is everything an inheritance of secrets, lies, talents, betrayals, ambition, accomplishment and possibility.