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  • The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance

    An interracial soirée that included intellectual and artistic luminaries set in motion one of the most...

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    Gylan Kain, 81, a Founder of the Last Poets and a Progenitor of Rap, Dies

    He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem...