Word In Black "Flower Crown" by Shakquan McAllister via Instagram. (WIB) - For Black artists, art is more than a pursuit of beauty or ...

Is Grant Wood’s famous painting "American Gothic" a celebration of Midwestern perseverance, or a mockery of a culture stuck ...

Welancora Gallery shines a spotlight on 81-year-old artist Helen Evans Ramsaran, who makes bronze sculpture inspired by ...

George Washington Carver's innovations, like crop rotation, formed the basis of modern farming techniques still used today.

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The California African American Museum in Los Angeles hopes to change that limited understanding with its current exhibition, ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina’s first African American poet laureate, discusses life, loss, joy and sometimes being ...

Discover the most influential Black NBA players, from legendary athletes to current rising stars shaping the game of ...

Explore the legacy of famous Black singers from the 1950s, from Little Richard to Ray Charles and their influence on music ...