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In honor of Black History Month, The Living Well Show celebrates the Harlem Renaissance. Who were these amazing artists and thinkers? Most of us don?t know. The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, during which a group of talented African-American writers produced a sizable body of literature in poetry, fiction, drama, and essay. The Harlem Renaissance marked the first time that mainstream publishers and critics took African American literature seriously and that African American literature and arts attracted significant attention from the nation at large. Dr. Cary Wintz author of Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance talks about Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, Countee Cullen, Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters, Aaron Douglas, W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey and others who were at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance making this rich period come alive for your listeners.