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How was Marcus Garvey’s Negro World connected to the Harlem Renaissance?

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The Weary Blues cover — Harlem Renaissance Dust jacket designed by the Mexican illustrator and writer Miguel Covarrubias for Langston Hughes's *The Weary Blues* (1926), a book of experimental poetry.

Negro World, the official newspaper of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, served as a platform that provided significant visibility for "New Negro" writers during the Harlem Renaissance.12

The publication was instrumental in fostering the movement's broader goals of racial pride and the rediscovery of African heritage, which were central themes of the era. Notably, the short-story writer Eric Walrond utilized the paper to publish the works of young Black writers, thereby contributing to the literary expansion of the period.321

Despite this connection, the relationship between the Garvey movement and the Harlem Renaissance was complex. While Negro World played a role in the cultural landscape, few of the major authors or artists identified with Garvey’s specific "Back to Africa" political agenda, even when they contributed their writing to the newspaper.2