“Those that don’t got it, can’t show it. Those that got it, can’t hide it.”
- Zora Neale Hurston
* An American folklorist, anthropologist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston’s four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
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by thaRealHarlemista
We all know that Harlem is bursting with history, not least of which is the that cultural movement known as the Harlem Reniassance, the “literary and intellectual flowering that fostered a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s”*.
Ephemera Press out of Brooklyn, a publishing company devoted to the celebrating the history of popular culture according to its website, sells a poster-quality illustrative map, beautifully highlighting geographical portraits of the Harlem Renaissance.
The back of the map also serves a walking tour guide. It’s a cartographic jewel well worth the money.
http://www.ephemerapress.com/harlemmap_detail.html
*Read more: The Birth of the Harlem Renaissance: History & Timeline — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmharlem1.html#ixzz1Yz0VTBS7
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Tagged ephemera press, harlem geopgraphy, Harlem Renaissance, maps, walking tour
By HarlemGal
In an exclusive TV interview with New York’s 24-hour local news channel, Dr. Maya Angelou, famed novelist, poet, professor, American icon and best of all…a Harlemite, recently told NY1 that Harlem is going through a rebirth. “What we are dealing with [in Harlem] is what has to be continually dealt with, that is a renaissance,” said Angelou. The video piece goes on to state that Angelou lives in a gorgeous Harlem brownstone and that there’s no question about her loyalty to Harlem. Angelou’s heart is in Harlem reports NY1. Click here to see the entire interview.
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“I have been in Sorrow’s kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.” – Zora Neale Hurston
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