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harlem is... MUSIC... THEATER... DANCE... THE GOSPEL TRADITION...
CELEBRATING THE LIVING HISTORY OF HARLEM
This multi-part series celebrates the legendary people, places and institutions that helped shape the cultural history of Harlem. Each exhibition illuminates an aspect of Harlem’s character and culture, weaving together research, interviews and creative writing by local students with archival and contemporary elements.
This award-winning multi-part series of exhibitions celebrating Harlem’s music, theater, and dance has toured citywide to over 30 locations from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to Federal Hall National Memorial.

Want to find the first Black Shakespearean actor in the United States?
THEATER...
Want to find out
who’s keeping Black theater alive

Photographic images, poetry, and prose, tell the story of African American Dance in Harlem

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