Isaac Julien has a history of working with the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance. So it makes sense that his latest commission, for Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation, circled back on writer, philosopher ...

VETERAN EDUCATOR AND CRISTO REY NETWORK CEO JOINS THE ALAIN LOCKE INITIATIVE AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Chicago, IL — November 15, 2012 — The Alain Locke Initiative, a leader in developing high-impact ...

Jeffrey Stewart was a graduate student when he first encountered Alain Locke. College students discover and forget historical figures every day, but something about Locke intrigued Stewart, today a ...

Today Mitch Jeserich is in conversation with Jeffrey C. Stewart, professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of the book The New Negro: The Life of ...

Alain Leroy Locke, born in Philadelphia in the late 1880s, is heralded as the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance" for his publication in 1925 of "The New Negro" — an anthology of poems, essays, plays, ...

With support from Drexel University, the Alain Locke School will become the 12th school to enter Philadelphia’s Community School Initiative. The program, which will be funded through Drexel’s West ...

The name Alain Locke is sometimes absent from the list of luminaries in the Harlem Renaissance; Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas, and others are more widely known ...

After winnning a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize for his 2018 biography of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart continues his study of the groundbreaking Howard University scholar as the editor of ...

I think that's the larger vision implicit in Locke, is that, not only will we reposition, and restate our beauty to ourselves, but then ultimately, in doing that, you will actually have an influence ...

Alain Locke School in West Philadelphia was named the city’s twelfth community school Wednesday, moving Mayor Jim Kenney’s administration closer to its goal of having 25 community schools by the end ...