A circa-1955 portrait of the monarch ... Olofemi, who often depicts African women in his work, also made a conscious decision about making the Queen have black hair in his painting.

In the past, Uzor has used portraiture to highlight stories of individuals representing the African diaspora and their relationship with Western culture. In 2020, she painted a portrait of Queen ...

However, other historians dispute his work, as there are still questions about how far removed from her African roots she ... who painted the 1762 portrait of Queen Charlotte, was known for ...

Elizabeth Freeman was probably born in 1742, to enslaved African parents in Claverack, New York. At the age of six months she was purchased, along with her sister, by John Ashley of Sheffield ...

P. Eagle and operating some-what nefariously out of a yacht anchored several miles off the French Riviera, producer Sam Spiegel decided to film The African Queen with a script by James Agee and ...