The Harlem Renaissance Lives on Inside Me

Entering the ’20s again with more Black pride than ever

Casira Copes
ZORA
Published in
3 min readFeb 10, 2021

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Black and white photo of a mural on the wall of Harlem Renaissance musicians.
Photo: Janine Robinson/Unsplash

The Harlem Renaissance was a tipping point in my education about Black history. It felt like a piece of our story that had been intentionally hidden from me — Black flourishing had no place in the American public education system, it seemed. My school’s textbooks went from slavery to segregation to…

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Casira Copes
ZORA
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