‘They were brilliant people’: fascinating film reveals a Harlem Renaissance reunion

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• A 1972 cocktail party at Duke Ellington House brought together surviving luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance, some seeing each other for the first time in 50 years.
• Filmmaker William Greaves hosted and filmed the four-hour reunion, with Ellington's sister Ruth playing host because Ellington was too ill to attend.