Valdes describes how Sir Allan Ramsay, the queen’s portrait artist, depicted her with distinctly African features, which could have been a political gesture in that time period: “Artists of ...

The 1841 portraits by Franklin R. Street have been shown at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and appear in the new documentary The Montiers: An American Story.

“Whether I’m making a portrait of a Black American or an African, we have the same ancestry.” Butler’s quilt of nine Harlem Hellfighters took 11 months to complete.

The theory that she may have had African ancestry was popularised by historian Mario de Valdes y Cocom. He argued that portraits of her show she had African features which were also noted by her ...

“Whether I’m making a portrait of a Black American or an African, we have the same ancestry.” Butler’s quilt of nine Harlem Hellfighters took 11 months to complete.

A multimedia installation, "The Founder's Project" reimagines Boston public high school students as the “legendary progenitors of West and Central African ethnic groups that are ancestral to the ...

Following the recent death of Garifuna music icon Aurelio Martinez, we naturally look to a younger generation for the pioneers of the future. One of those is Belizian Emilio Thomas, known artistically ...

Candid portraits explore the lives of LGBTQ African migrants Mikael Owunna. ... I’ve fallen in love with my full name, and value its importance within my ancestral and personal journey.

"African American Military Portraits from the American Civil War" is an exhibit that commemorates the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States.