Think about your favorite books or films. You know, the ones that make you lose track of time, where you become a part of the action and actually lose yourself in the story. What makes those books or films so captivating? What sets them apart from other stories that, while they may be interesting, don't really make you suspend your own reality and become a part of the narrative?
The answer is, most likely, that those stories that enchant you touch on universal truths, things that happen to everyone in one way or another, and create a feeling that the author or filmmaker understands you. That is the mark of a great storyteller: the ability to make.....
The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. De
