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Columbia University professor, Farah Jasmine Griffin, writes about three black female artists, living and working in Harlem in the 1940s, detailing their lives, their work, their energy, their creativity in a time of political and social activism. Born elsewhere, dancer Pearl Primus, writer Ann Petry and jazz musician Mary Lou Williams were drawn to New York. They are the subjects of "Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists of Progressive Politics During World War II."

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