harlem (new york, n.y.)

Contains critical articles which analyze important literary works from the Harlem Renaissance and provide information about the genre's most influential writers and works.

Set in Harlem in 1958, this musical tells the story of three sisters struggling to find stardom as a singing group. But they learn that wishing on a star is one thing, and that being the star can be a one-way ticket to self-destruction.

Seeing no way out of his difficult life in Harlem, seventeen-year-old Jeremy "Lil J" Dance flees into a house after a drug deal goes awry and meets a weird man who shows different turning points in Lil J's life when he could have made better choices.

Thirteen-year-old Chloe and her younger brother Parker are transported back to 1934 Harlem where they meet Ella Fitzgerald the day before she wins Amateur Night at the Apollo, but with Ella making plans to miss the event, the kids have to get her to the Apollo, and convince her to sing instead of dance.

Rhyming text celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African-Americans first called home during the 1920s. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois; and lawyer Thurgood Marshall.

Precious Jones, an illiterate incest victim now pregnant with her second child, finds her strength and voice when she is mentored by a new teacher.

Fourteen-year-old John Grimes, the son of a revivalist preacher in Harlem, struggles to reconcile his desires and goals with the expectations of his African-American family and community, while his parents Gabriel and Elizabeth, deal with the sins and sorrows of the past.

After reluctantly taking on the leadership of the Harlem gang, the Scorpions, Jamal finds that his enemies treat him with respect when he acquires a gun -- until a tragedy occurs.

Jeremy sets out to discover all of the different "people" that make him who he is, including brother, son, writer, and runner.