The film "Right On Be Free" emphasizes the importance of art and community in the African American experience. It calls for black individuals to engage with their heritage through artistic expression, ...

The recognition comes close on the heels of a Barnes exhibit that marked a homecoming for Thomas who Alicia Keys calls "bold, ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many different forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear as ordinary as a woman with natural hair perfectly coiffed and a ...

Pierpont Morgan—the Gilded Age’s wolf of Wall Street—used some of his wealth to amass a vast collection of books and art. He soon realized ... to an elite Black family in Washington, D.C ...

Adrian Younge has provided the backbeat for a large swath of Black entertainment - literally. In addition to composing the ...

Check out these picture books, early chapter books and middle-grade books for kids, coming out in spring 2025!

Collector William Arnett was working on a history of African-American vernacular art in 1998 when he came ... four sons formed in 2002), fifty local women founded the Gee's Bend Quilters ...

The 2025 festival includes seven features (three of which are documentaries), plus 20 shorts. Across genres, Crooks noted that selections touch on pertinent social issues, from immigration to cultural ...

According to the CDC, Black women are more than three times more likely to die during childbirth compared to white women. NBC ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong ...

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Like many in America, Todd Martens grew up with parents who devoted the bulk of their vacation time to Disney’s theme parks. He now understands them as places to make sense of the world rather ...