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...couple of decades later, it was the "Harlem Renaissance" that would lay the best-publicized claim to the word. This highly self-conscious movement was born largely through the midwifery of Alain Locke, the first black Rhodes scholar. Writers such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, Jessie Fauset and Zora Neale Hurston -- the fundaments of the black literary canon today -- came of age at this time, leading the New York Herald Tribune to announce in 1925 that America was "on the edge, if not already in the midst, of what might not improperly be called a Negro renaissance...
...well as any. That was when August Wilson's Fences premiered on Broadway and Toni Morrison published her masterpiece, Beloved. Both would receive Pulitzer Prizes. In that same year, PBS aired Henry Hampton's Eyes on the Prize, the six-part documentary on the civil rights era, and Cornell scholar Martin Bernal published Black Athena, a highly controversial account of African sources of classical Greek civilization. Meanwhile, Spike Lee and Wynton Marsalis were establishing themselves as masters of film and jazz...
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: A leading black scholar looks back at renaissances past and finds hope for the future...
...cover portrait of choreographer Bill T. Jones, as well as all the photographs of black artists accompanying the story, were shot by staff photographer Ted Thai. For good measure, Thai also took the striking portraits of Yale scholar Harold Bloom and hot young filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in this week's issue. As deputy picture editor MaryAnne Golon points out, "Ted has a gift for thinking of imaginative ways to incorporate an artist's discipline into a photograph." To incorporate the marvelous achievements of today's African-American artists into the frame of a cover story, all of our Black Renaissance...
...excelled in math and science, and was a National Merit Scholar. His father, Ray, said he took the Advanced Placement tests in Biology, Chemistry, Latin and Calculus BC, even though he had missed half of his classes between chemotherapy and surgery...