the other period, of course, would be the harlem renaissance. >> hinojosa: mm-hmm. >> the harlem renaissancehich was a time of... well, it's the... historian david levering lewis puts it, "it was civil rights through art." black people had the idea-- which was a not very efficacious idea, but they had an idea-- that they could change the image of the race vis-à-vis white people who doubted our ancestor's intellectual integrity and intellectual capacities by creating great literature and art. so there was this big revolution of writing and it was called the harlem renaissance, but it led to renaissances throughout the caribbean and even in africa. you know, the négritude movement, which was started by a martinican, aimé césaire, and léopold senghor, who went on to become the first president of senegal, they were students at the sorbonne. they heard about the harlem renaissance and they created the négritude movement starting in 1934. and langston hughes, probably the most googled and sited poet in the american cannon, translated works of these black american writers into spanish and french...

the harlem renaissance, aged world war i through the great depression, was born in harlem, usa. it was a social movement and explosion of culture and arts, drawing black writers, musicians and scholars to the city street. now, a growing hub of diversity and gentrification, residents are concerned, wondering which parts of new york's black cultural the go will survive. shayna seymour took a tour with abc news ron claiborne. yna: ask one dozen new yorkers about their favorite parks and you get one dozen answers. ron claiborne favors morningside park in harlem. the park sits outside the gates to columbia university, where he went to grad school. ron: i lived here because as a student, we had been told very seriously do not go into morningside park day or night. it is dangerous and it was. shayna: morningside park rn different. well kept up, you do full, quite. the people are from harlem or up in morningside heights. it is quiet, tranquil and peaceful. shayna: he reserves that enthusiasm for harlem. >> the new harlem is more diverse, exciting, places to eat, safer, jazz clubs and it

she's the author of black women writers, lineage in tradition and women in the harlem renaissance and she's a beloved professor rutgers university in new brunswick department of english. our final speaker is transfixed. many of you may know mitch. he has quite a profile as a curator of important cultural figure in our art scene. a writer, a scholar of hurston. he is the coeditor of a special issue. as well as contributing editor at the james baldwin revealed. please show me in welcoming these extraordinary speakers and writers. back there is never enough time to talk about zora hurston. i would simply question that would now meet our panel to give opening statements at out there thought on zora neale hurston. if you are able to consider this question in the context, although whatever you say i think will actually interest the question. why should we still read zora neale hurston 100 years after her birth? start with you that. >> first i want to say how wonderful it is to be on the panel and particularly because this panel -- [inaudible] i really am pretty themed i'm just going to join

think the period where you see a big sort of aesthetic shift doesn't come until the era of harlem renaissance and xander g. and other photographs who are steeped in showcasing african-american culture in its all of its richness and diversity in the way that i think the political circumstances are so different in that civil war and post civil war moment. >> yes, leif fisher from oxford, ohio. the early photographs of the black ladies with white children. >> yeah. >> i think it's been pretty well documented that a lot of those ladies stayed with those families for a long time, some of them even after the war because they had no other option. are you suggesting that all of those photographs were staged and those women actually had no affection for those little kids? >> so that's a couple of different questions. let me try to pull this apart a little bit. certainly in terms of economic options we know that many former slaves did not have a wealth of opportunity. >> right. >> and resources ahead of them. we also know that until the 1960s domestic service was the number one occupation for african-a

what would the riders in the harlem renaissance, the poets, the, the visionaries, the sculptors. i think as part of this movement, the art needs to be involved as well. i think that's another critical element. everybody has to play a role in everybody carries different tools in their backpack. the artists are really important [inaudible] we are in a similar moment. i think from that perspective, the artists have this amazing captivating idea. sometimes the act acronyms in the small but creative way can help galvanize the movement. they should be part of this process so i'll. >> okay, if there is no other question from media, this will be our final question. >> yes, let's go, good afternoon. this has been a great experience and we all walk away from an awesome experience and we are really excited. where are the websites and where is there additional information so we can continue to pass this forward, and as she said, make sure we have our facts and our facts are correct. if there's a website i would really like to have it. if not, maybe there's a way we can stay connected. think

>> i don't know if donald trump has ever gone up to harlem in this city and seen the renaissance that'sack middle class, people striving to get ahead and succeeding. for him to denigrate and stereo type an entire population in the way he has, it reflects the kind of bigotry and racism that's coming out of his mouth. whether he attacks an american born judge because of his heritage and says he can't do his job because his paurrents we mexican -- i think people of this country, white, black, latino, asian, see what that's about. it's about prejudice, bigotry and hate. when he takes that hate and has its go mainstream, taking the tweet from an anti-semitic white supremacist, what is wrong with this person who thinks he should be president of the united states and behaves like that? it's a total disgrace. >> do you accept -- what is your reaction to donald trump's suggestion that the anthony weiner situation reflects badly on hillary clinton and her judgment to keep weiner's wife so close to confidential information because weiner would have had access to it? >> here we've got a painful pri