There was a 13-year window in the United States around the turn of the 20th century during which alcohol was made illegal. That time period, known as prohibition, lasted from 1920 to 1933. The era, of ...

The Jazz Age in Central Harlem took place alongside the flowering of visual arts, poetry, and prose sparked by the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. Some name this era one of the most ...

"Lenox Avenue" is a fictitious Harlem Renaissance-era speakeasy Credit: photo courtesy Renaissance Theatre Co. We’ve all had to bid premature farewells to far too many friends over the past few years, ...

In the last hour, we explored the jazz of King Oliver's Chicago in the 1920s, and heard from The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, clarinetists Jimmy Noone and Johnny Dodds, pianists Earl Hines and Lovie ...

Life in the 1920s was defined by many cultural, political, and economic developments. Jazz music and flapper fashion defined the era's sound and look. The Harlem Renaissance brought popularity to art ...

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah, doo-ah. Credit: Photo by John Abbott Jones Hall might be located in the heart of downtown ...

Part jukebox musical and part dance revue, “After Midnight” at the Paper Mill Playhouse searches for the spirit and energy of Black art that was at the core of the Harlem Renaissance. Not overly ...

They didn’t call it the “Roaring Twenties” for no reason. From bluesy jazz spilling out of speakeasies to flappers kicking up their heels in defiance of societal norms, the 1920s were a time of glitzy ...