Black History Month

March 8, 2023 - Alyssa Morris

On the Record: Black Creators and the Jazz Age

Filed Under: Featured1 Tagged With: African American Creators, Black History Month, exhibition, Jazz, Music, Research

Exhibition organized by Harry Ransom Center graduate research assistants sheds light on black creators from the collections whose work exemplifies the spirit and history of jazz. The music of saxophonist Charlie “Bird” Parker, photographs of jazz and swing singer Billie Holiday and saxophonist Dexter Gordon, a jazz-inspired essay by Langston… read more

February 1, 2021 - Steven Hoelscher

A lost work by Langston Hughes

Filed Under: Authors, Featured1 Tagged With: African American Creators, African American History Month, archive, Black History Month, Langston Hughes, literature

In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race, unpublished in English until 2019. It’s not every day that you come across an extraordinary unknown work by one of the nation’s greatest writers. But buried in an unrelated archive, I discovered a searing essay condemning racism in… read more

January 31, 2019 - Diana Leite

Fugitive findings

Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Black History Month, graduate intern

How artists of color survive in the archives By Diana Silveira Leite and Gaila Sims We’re celebrating Black History Month with the display Fugitive Findings: How Artists of Color Survive in the Archives.