But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and ’70s, which partnered with the modern Civil Rights Movement. In ...

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Nora Holt was the first Black person in the United States to earn a master’s degree in music. A prolific composer and a club-hopping socialite, she once wrote a 42-page work for a 100-piece orchestra.

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Lorraine O’Grady, an indefatigable conceptual artist whose work critiqued definitions of identity, died in New York on Friday aged 90. Her gallery, Mariane Ibrahim, confirmed her death via email, ...

My first visit to the capital city was a brilliant display of diversity with African American and minority cultures and ...

A Jennifer Hudson Christmas concert, a Pan-Africa art exhibition and thee return of "Les Miserables" are among the ...

The famous New York Accords put an end to the conflict ... Joaõ Lourenço emphasised that the aim is to attract American investment for the development of the economy and to open the doors ...