The most expansive exhibition to date of the American artist is going on a country-wide tour culminating in Washington, D.C.

Read our review of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play *A Raisin in the Sun*, now in performances at the Lyric Hammersmith to 2 ...

The Newburgh photo and oral history project seeks to preserve the histories of local African American families.

Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such ...

are "certainly meaningful to me as an African American who has had a distinct set of experiences." Indeed, the portrait that hangs over her desk, by William H. Johnson, carries an echo of one of her ...

Following Mr Floyd's death, protests spread across the world as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, which campaigns for ...

Bunch III is the Smithsonian's 14th Secretary and the founding director of the National Museum of African American History ... An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery showcases the ...

Basically, it’s an evocation of Ailey, and his dance, through the lens of African American visual art ... Image From left, Geoffrey Holder’s “Portrait of Carmen de Lavallade,” 1976 ...

The inclusion of the Breonna Taylor portrait—a piece that anchored the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s exhibit “Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.”— ...

Adeana Berry has always loved art and now truly living the dream ... children and other African-Americans who were lost to violence and mistreatment in the community. She chose to paint ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research ... In 2011, his portrait, by Yuqi Wang, was ...

Amy Sherald is set to make history as the first Black contemporary artist to hold a solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Known for her renowned and iconic portrait ...