Voices of the Harlem Renaissance: Originally Published as The New Negro an Interpretation

Holiday Special: Save 50% until the end of the year! Note: eBook and audionbook versions, above, do not contain Troy Johnson’s new introductionWith a New Introduction by ‘s Founder Troy Johnson The New Negro: Voices of The Harlem Renaissance was published in 1925 by the Albert and Charles Boni Publishing Company. Dr. Alain LeRoy Locke edited this groundbreaking anthology, which he described as”…embodying these ripening forces as culled from the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance also known as the Harlem Renaissance.” This preeminent collection introduced the artistic and cultural expression of African American writers, poets, and artists to a wider audience.

Almost 100 years later, this treasure trove of innovative work by our foremost thinkers, creatives, and storytellers, continues to inspire and inform a new generation of writers, thought leaders, intellectuals, and activists inciting change today, on a global scale. Locke was born in Philadelphia, PA on September 13, 1885. A highly accomplished academic and intellectual, he was the first African American Rhodes Scholar and earned a PhD in philosophy at Harvard University. Jeffrey C. Stewart, author of Locke’s critically acclaimed biography, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, describes Locke; Alain Locke a tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro – the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness.” Despite his small stature Locke loomed large in terms of accomplishments. An educator, philosopher, and patron of the arts he is recognized as the “Dean of the Harlem Renaissance,” not only for his literary contributions, but for his behind the scenes work supporting authors, and teaching at Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, DC, for over 40 years.