How the Harmon Foundation Played a Pivotal Role in Supporting the Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

During the 1920s and ’30s, a cohort of Black artists, writers, and intellectuals, many of whom were based in Harlem, ushered in what was then known as the New Negro Movement. Today, the Harlem Renaissance is renowned for its reputation of ushering in the New Negro, and the movement is currently the subject of a major survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.Largely championed by Howard University professor and philosopher Alain Locke via his seminal anthology of the same name,