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 ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with NPR White House correspondent Asma Khalid about "American Muslims," a new PBS series she hosts.

John W. Marshall, son of Thurgood Marshall, speaks at the 70th Anniversary Brown Coalition at Washburn University.

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

The 60th Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago’s best and biggest cinema showcase, begins Wednesday and offers 107 new ...

On a bustling street in London’s affluent Fitzrovia, a new gallery has set itself a challenge: to represent the underrepresented. From Venezuela to Nigeria, Tanzania to Colchester, gifted artists from ...

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 ...