Sunday Feature: Harlem on FireSeries 1, episode 0'Fire!!' was a literary magazine from the Harlem Renaissance published in 1926, created by and for the young black artists of the movement. The magazine was an explosive attempt to burn down the traditional western canon and replace it with a series of brutally honest and controversial depictions of African American life. Fire!! lasted for just one issue, yet despite its very brief existence, the magazine is now considered to be an incredibly important document, and an early example of an artistic youth rebellion in the African American printed press. Here, writer, journalist and broadcaster Afua Hirsch travels to Harlem to find out all about this long-lost piece of African American history Click to see when Sunday Feature, Harlem on Fire is coming up on UK TV Cast (unconfirmed)
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