On May 23, 1951, Dorothy Porter Wesley sat for a portrait in Carl Van Vechten’s …
On May 23, 1951, Dorothy Porter Wesley sat for a portrait in Carl Van Vechten’s Manhattan studio. The photograph is elegant and calm, but behind her composed expression was the mind of a literary detective. As curator of Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Dorothy wasn’t just cataloging books—she was rescuing voices, forgotten histories, and hidden […]








