Routed West” expands on a previous display of Black diaspora works from the 1940-to-1970 Second Migration period.

The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, ...

The Marshall L. Davis Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center will present “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance ...

Braids and locs physically hanging out of paintings. Blue hair. Tresses imagined as bold visual jazz. Hair that’s realistic ...

Two centuries later, a number of women in Oakland are recreating the Underground Railroad quilt. It’s one of the annual ...

Artist Stephen Hamilton invokes a Yoruba proverb when he talks about his work: “We greet the cloth before we greet the person.” Hamilton’s 15-foot-tall painting on hand-woven fabric, mounted on a hand ...

Trump mandated the removal of exhibits and materials deemed “divisive” or promoting “race-centered ideology” from federally funded museums.

O ne day in 2020, Regina Reaves woke up and her husband, Robin, said, “Surprise, we’re in business!” The couple had discussed starting their own interior design firm but Reg ...

Lungala Rubadiri took a long trek from Los Angeles to the Lilac City for the 40th annual ArtFest, a pilgrimage he’s made at ...

Before Thoreau's "life in the woods," there was Brister Freeman, a formerly enslaved man who won his freedom serving in the ...

An electric violin, a tap genius, art world legends, holograms and more will feature in dance shows to see in Washington and ...