I mix painting and collage to create colorful, patterned and embellished interior scenes populated by women who are depicted with pitch black skin color. Each figure has a different set of eyes ...

Trayvon Martin’s trial might be intriguing, fascinating cultural theater to some. To me, it is more akin to a cultural trauma: a continual reminder of how unsafe all those young black men that I ...

In Lee's painting, her subject has close-cropped ... also explored the damage caused by colorism and the perception of dark-skinned women outside and within their own community.

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side ... with her cheeks and lips rouged and her skin likely whitened by ceruse. Cosmetic patches were used ...

Hundreds of people helped clean and restore a sculpture of a seated Black woman by the US ... covered the entirety of the woman’s skin with white spray paint,” according to a statement from ...

So, imagine my surprise at the ESSENCE Festival Day of Service event, co-hosted by Master P, when Kodak himself walked in as we were painting ... can say I like dark skinned women or I like ...