Chronicling the Harlem Renaissance era, this retrospective documentary tracks the origins of the soulful music of the period, along with the challenges many of the genre's artists faced when trying to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Harlem Renaissance Project is a collection of pieces named after an artistic and cultural movement that took place in the ...

Over five decades after it was filmed, the long-awaited documentary Once Upon a Time in Harlem is finally being released. The project has received an official date it will hit theaters—and it's ...

Sundance: Ten years after his death, the legendary documentarian's son has restored one of his most important projects. Fifty-four years after the party and 12 years after Greaves’ death, the film he ...

In the documentary “Once Upon a Time in Harlem,” the legendary photographer James Van Der Zee eyes the grand piano sitting in the living room of Duke Ellington’s townhouse. We hear a voice nudge him ...

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with ...

CANNES, France — David Greaves was 26 when his father, the pioneering filmmaker William Greaves, asked him to be one of four cameramen documenting a historic gathering in Harlem. In August 1972, ...

William Greaves' concept was as brilliant as it was simple: Throw a party for all the prominent, surviving luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance at the house of jazz legend Duke Ellington, and film the ...

Sitting (left to right): Jean Blackwell Hutson, Eubie Blake and Irvin C. Miller. Standing (left to right): Aaron Douglas, Nathan Huggins and Richard Bruce Nugent. Photo: Bruce Stanford, Courtesy: ...

You wouldn’t expect filmmaker William Greaves, of 1968’s spectacular meta-documentary Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, to have made one of the best films playing at Sundance in 2026. That’s partially ...

NEW YORK — In 1974, Harlem’s deserted streets and tumbledown tenements told the story of a neighborhood left behind. Decades of disinvestment had culminated in a mass exodus known as urban flight and ...