Professor Cheryl A. Wall, author and foremost scholar on women artists of the Harlem Renaissance, will discuss the lives and works of Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith and others. This promises to be a fascinating evening exploring the struggle of a generation of literary women in the 1920s and ’30s who sought to depict the lives of Black people, especially Black women, honestly and artfully. Willis is a literary critic and professor of English at Rutgers University.