The Birth Of A ‘New Negro’
The Birth Of A ‘New Negro’
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Can travel change your identity? It certainly did for one man. Alaine Locke, nicknamed the ‘Dean of the Harlem Renaissance,’ traveled back and forth between Washington, D.C. and Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he was able to completely reimagine what it meant to be black and gay in 1919.