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The work of students enrolled in the Artists in Public Schools’ residency program at Chicago Public Schools is now on display ...
Last night in Brooklyn, Monica Miller was joined by Soull and Dynasty Ogun of L’Enchanteur; Tela D’amore and Ev Bravado of ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Thirty-one quilts hang like tapestries at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, weaving history with art. Each shows a Black jockey wearing the silks they had in life.
The Highwaymen Movie, showcasing the inspiring legacy of Florida's celebrated African American landscape artists, is set to captivate audiences soon.
Harry Belafonte was the “King of Calypso.” Singer, actor, and above all, an activist who fought racism and oppression ...
For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.
As the transatlantic alliance falters, a major exhibition of U.S. photography offers Europeans a dizzying array of ...
William Harvey Carney actions amid some of the most intense combat of the Civil War would earn him the respect of his fellow troops and the Medal of Honor.
Figures like Du Bois, Hurston, and Baldwin stitched freedom into fabric—not out of vanity but vision. To revisit their style ...
“The artists are dreaming in Afrofuturism and surrealism, talking about the anxiety and the alienation of living in this ...
MMA is home to one of the South's largest collections of quilts, from which more than 50 examples were drawn for this ...
The "artist-reporter" Allan Rohan Crite's straightforward depictions of ordinary Black city life challenged simplistic assumptions.