Thirty years ago, when the childhood home of author and Alexandria native Arna Bontemps was threatened with demolition, a group of concerned citizens organized to rescue it. Now that the structure and ...

Arnaud (Arna) W. Bontemps, an author, poet, playwright and educator, was one of the great literary figures of the pre-civil rights era. Bontemps emerged to prominence during the literary movement ...

"This is my first time being here," said Jacqueline Bontemps, granddaughter of Arna Wendell Bontemps, the renowned African-American Harlem Renaissance author and poet who was born in Alexandria in ...

This is a subscriber-exclusive edition of Unsettled Territory, a newsletter about culture, law, history, and finding meaning in the mundane. One essay, “Why I Returned,” is by noted Harlem Renaissance ...

Arnaud (Arna) W. Bontemps, an author, poet, playwright and educator, was one of the great literary figures of the pre-civil rights era. Bontemps emerged to prominence during the literary movement ...

Arna Bontemps Hemenway has won the 2015 PEN/Hemingway Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for “Elegy on Kinderklavier” (Sarabande). Hemenway is the son of former KU chancellor Robert ...

James Weldon Johnson : O black and unknown bards ; Go down death (a funeral sermon) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar : Dawn ; Compensation ; The debt ; Life ; My sort o' man ; The party ; A song ; Sympathy ; ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Harmon Foundation, a ...