The Harlem Renaissance Lives on Inside Me
Entering the ’20s again with more Black pride than ever
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3 min readFeb 10, 2021
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…