The book is called The New Negro, and it’s the biography of an African-American intellectual who once lived in DC named Alain Locke. I recognized the name at because I walk by a house very often in my ...

Here are 10 stories that reflect Black scholarship, movements and influences. In 1925, scholar Alain Locke described the Harlem Renaissance by saying “Negro life is seizing its first chances for ...

On Sunday, Feb. 16, Rucker will receive the Alain Locke Recognition Award at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), alongside fellow artist (and Michigan native) Titus Kaphar, who will receive the ...

School snapshot: Named after the first African American Rhodes Scholar, Alain Locke Charter School was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as 1 of 7 schools in the U.S. most successful at ...

Ossie Davis was born in 1917 in Codgell, Georgia. Against the advice of his mentor, the pivotal Harlem Renaissance figure Alain Locke, Davis dropped out of Howard University in 1939 to pursue acting.

Barnes, an early US collector and exhibitor of African cultural artefacts, and the renowned philosopher and cultural critic Alain Locke, known as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance”.