Addressed to Smithsonian secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, (the former curator of the National Museum of African American Art and Culture who oversees 19 Smithsonian museums in his new role ...

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

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

“MEMORY OF WATER II”: This work by Janet Taylor Pickett is featured in “The Selma Burke Invitational African American Art Show,” on view May 31 through June 29 at Phillips’ Mill in New Hope, Pa.

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 ...

AFRICAN AMERICANS. Cleveland's African American community is almost as old as the city itself. GEORGE PEAKE, the first Black settler, arrived in 1809 and by 1860 there were 799 Black people living in ...

The model, Morton says, symbolizes what he believes is missing in fine art: the fair representation of black people. Artists say African Americans are absent from historical art collections in ...

The Frist Art Museum will present Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, an exhibition that celebrates aesthetic and technical achievements in quilting ...

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has vetoed a bill that would have allowed African American history courses to count toward high school graduation requirements. The measure, which was introduced in ...

According to leading genealogists, Pope Leo’s family history reveals a deep and complex African American lineage, with roots stretching back to New Orleans and Haiti. "I looked into some of the ...