one Black man in a gallery of white men and women was not appropriate,” said Kathleen Gagne, executive director and co-chair of The Portraits Project at Mechanics Hall. “It was not going to do ...

For President Obama’s portrait, Wiley has the former president ... He looks cool, a little casual, but about his business. As a Black man in the Oval Office, President Obama very much fits ...

The 18th-century portrait “A Young Coachman” at Erddig, a National Trust property in north Wales, for example, now includes information on who the Black man in the painting might be.

In seventh grade, his portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. was pinned on a bulletin board outside the principal’s office. Today, his portrait of Mary Frances Early, UGA’s first Black graduate ...

WORCESTER — The Portrait Project at Mechanics Hall was unveiled Thursday evening, revealing images of impactful 19th-century Black Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William and ...