“My color shrouds me in…” Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry adopts this line from Countee Cullen, another Harlem Renaissance writer, as one of its two epigraphs. (The other is the ...

Thelma Steward and Wallace Thurman were walking down Salt Lake City’s Main Street on a Tuesday afternoon when a group of white soldiers bumped into the young black couple. At 200 South ...

Wallace Thurman and Jessie Redmon Fauset. What is far less known are the white patronesses who made much of their work possible. With her story Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black ...

Novelist Angela Flournoy introduces Langston Hughes' coming-of-age tale "Not Without Laughter"; historian Allyson Hobbs sets the table for Wallace Thurman's "The Blacker the Berry"; scholar Emily ...