The Big Ponder
The Big Ponder
Goethe-Institut
Black Art, Berlin Stories – Looking for Alain Locke
34 minutes Posted Sep 18, 2019 at 10:00 am.
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In 1925, the African-American philosopher Alain Locke (1886-1954) launched a revolutionary black arts movement now known as the Harlem Renaissance. In this episode of The Big Pond, producer Bilal Qureshi traces Alain Locke’s ideas back to one city in particular – Berlin.