Alston was introduced to African art by the poet Alain Locke.

* Alain LeRoy Locke

Du Bois and Alain Locke developed concepts of cultural pluralism, from which emerged what we understand today as multiculturalism.

The first use of the term recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary was by philosopher and social theorist Alain Locke in 1924 to describe Robert Lowie's " extreme cultural relativism ", found in the latter's 1917 book Culture and Ethnology.

Alain Locke writes in a review, " when will the Negro novelist of maturity, who knows how to tell a story convincingly -- which is Miss Hurston's cradle gift, come to grips with motive fiction and social document fiction?

Alain Locke, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and first African American Rhodes Scholar, authored The New Negro, which helped to usher in the Harlem Renaissance.

Alain Leroy Locke High School is a Title 1 co-educational charter high school located in Los Angeles, California, United States, and is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District / Green Dot Public Schools.

It is named after Alain LeRoy Locke.

Alain Locke included the essay in his edited collection The New Negro.

He also began studying with Winold Reiss, a German artist who had been hired by Alain Locke to illustrate The New Negro.

Beginning in the 1920s, Douglas's illustrations appeared in books by James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, and other prominent black writers, activists, and intellectuals.

Du Bois, and Alain Locke regarded it as an " affront to the hospitality of black folks ".

Among them are the former residences of: Charles Manuel " Sweet Daddy " Grace, flamboyant founder of the United House of Prayer For All People ; John A. Lankford, the first African American architect in Washington, D. C .; Belford Lawson, Jr., lead attorney in the landmark case New Negro Alliance v. Sanitary Grocery Co .; Alain LeRoy Locke, the first African American Rhodes Scholar and central figure in the Harlem Renaissance ; Mary Jane Patterson, the first African American woman to earn a bachelor's degree ; Ella Watson, subject of Gordon Parks's famous photograph American Gothic, Washington, D. C .; and James Lesesne Wells, noted graphic artist and longtime art instructor at Howard University.

Howard Theological Seminary received its first matriculates in 1866 ; by 1925, Professor Alain LeRoy Locke was advancing the idea of " The New Negro ", and Langston Hughes was descending from LeDroit Park to hear the " sad songs " of 7th Street.

In 1947 critic Alain Locke described him as " a real and rare genius, combining folk quality with artistic maturity so uniquely as almost to defy classification.

It encouraged mass interest in literature and the arts, and paved the way for publication of Alain Locke ’ s well-known The New Negro eight years later.

After her death, her friend and advisor, Dr. Chris Chapman completed a book about her life and the African American pioneers she had worked with and been friends with, including Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Dorothy West, Josephine Baker, and Matthew Henson.

Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, Georgia Douglas Johnson, and Alain Locke, and hosted regular Sunday evening gatherings with persons such as Mary Church Terrell, William L. Hunt, Amanda Hilyer, Harry T. Burleigh, and Will Marion Cook.

Contributors to Folk-Say included Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Henry Roth, J. Frank Dobie, Louise Pound, Alexander Haggerty Krappe, Archer Taylor, Stanley Vestal, Alain Locke, Sterling Brown, Paul Horgan, and Mari Sandoz.

( In the novel, Sweetie May Carr, a character modelled on the real-life Hurston, christens the Harlem rooming house where Dr Parkes, modelled on the real life Alain Locke, establishes a salon of artists, Niggerati Manor, just as Thurman's own rooming house was in real life.

Gregory, and Dr. Alain Leroy Locke, were inducted into the Fraternity.

Phi Beta Sigma fraternity brother Alain LeRoy Locke is unofficially credited as the " Father of the Harlem Renaissance.

Other notable members include: World famous scientist, George Washington Carver, the first black Rhodes Scholar Alain LeRoy Locke, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, organizer of the Million Man March, Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, civil rights activists, Hosea Williams, Rev.

Alain Decaux wrote: " Madame de Rambaud was officially in charge of the care of the Dauphin from the day of his birth until 10 August 1792, in other words, for seven years.

In 1982, Gainsbourg wrote an album for French rocker Alain Bashung, Play blessures.

Other composers, such as Olivier Messiaen, Jehan Alain, Jean Langlais, and Petr Eben, wrote post-tonal organ music.

In 1972, Rampa's French language agent Alain Stanké wrote to the Dalai Lama and asked for his opinion about Rampa's identity.

After publishing four novels, in 1961, he worked with Alain Resnais, writing the script for Last Year in Marienbad ( L ' Année dernière à Marienbad ), and he subsequently wrote and directed his own films.

Robbe-Grillet also wrote screenplays, notably for Alain Resnais ' 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, a critical success that is considered to be one of the finest French films of the 1960s.

In 2008 Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Marguerite from an original text by Alain Boublil, a musical set in Nazi-occupied Paris, to music by Michel Legrand.

Maurice Duruflé wrote a musical tribute to Jehan Alain with his Prélude et fugue sur le nom d ' A. L. A. I. N op.

It was mostly praised by film critics, although Alain Robbe-Grillet wrote an unfavorable review and stated " I didn't like it very much.

The English Romantic poet John Keats famously wrote the ballad ' La Belle Dame Sans Merci ', using the title from Alain Chartier.

In the 1970s Berger collaborated with the Swiss director Alain Tanner on several films ; he wrote or co-wrote La Salamandre ( 1971 ), The Middle of the World ( 1974 ) and Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 ( 1976 ).

Alain Silver and James Ursini wrote in their book Whatever Happened to Robert Aldrich ?, " Reputedly, Crawford was still incensed by Davis ' attitude on Baby Jane and did not want to be upstaged again, as Davis ' nomination for Best Actress convinced her she had been.

Sternberg also wrote for film director Alain Resnais, penning the script of his 1968 surreal time travel feature, Je t ' aime, Je t ' aime.

Mercer wrote the screenplay for the Alain Resnais film Providence, in which John Gielgud portrays an elderly, dying writer.

After the decisive contribution of the composer Alain Oulman, fado began singing texts of poets with academic education and published literary works, such as David Mourão-Ferreira, Pedro Homem de Mello, José Régio, Luiz de Macedo, and later Alexandre O. Neill, Sidónio Muralha, Leonel Neves and Vasco de Lima Couto, among many others.

Shaped in part by the French " nouveau roman " of writers like Alain Robbe-Grillet, the French " La Nouvelle Vague " cinema of Godard and Truffaut, and Latin American “ Boom ,” Spanish novelists and poets, beginning perhaps with Luis Martín Santos's novel, Tiempo de silencio ( 1961 ), returned to the restless literary experimentation last seen in Spanish letters in the early 1930s.

Sarraute's essay The Age of Suspicion ( L ' Ère du soupçon, 1956 ) served as a prime manifesto for the nouveau roman literary movement, alongside Alain Robbe-Grillet's For a New Novel.

* Alain Bernheim ( producer ), French-born American film producer and literary agent

Poole writes book reviews and literary and cultural essays for numerous publications, including a long obituary of Jean Baudrillard for the Guardian ,, and a critique of the work of Alain de Botton.