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Harlem in the Jazz Age: A Renaissance in New York, a Revolution on Swing Street

The wait staff at Small's Paradise, 1929. The venue, on 134th Street and today's Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, was the rare Black-owned nightclub that was integrated. It became one of Harlem's most enduring hot spots, closing in 1986. New York Daily News Archive / Getty Images

For the Bowery Boys episode number 450, we’re looking at the glamour and mystery of Harlem during the 1920s, a decade when the predominantly black neighborhood, in the words of Langston Hughes, “was in vogue.” This year marks the 100th anniversary of Alain Locke’s classic essay “The New Negro” and the literary anthology featuring the… Read More