From the Harlem Renaissance to the Great Depression to housing segregation during the 1940s. Harlem's history is filled with black culture, literature and music, but it is also filled with terrible housing conditions, income inequality and riots. No one told the story of Harlem better than Ann Petry. Petry was an African American female author that wrote stories about Harlem at it's truest, rawest and most vulnerable form. This episode we tell the story of Ann Petry.
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