Her efforts included doing extensive genealogical research and trying varied outreach methods, even cold calling the quiltmakers' relatives.

The week-long event, an outgrowth of the Fade to Black play festival, celebrates various African American artistic pursuits ...

Brooklyn’s premier institution for the African Diasporic performing arts – will once again team up with The Soapbox Presents, ...

Angela Davis, the legendary activist, scholar and author known for her decades of work in racial justice, prison abolition ...

Solange Knowles has been rounding up an eclectic stable of African American artists and performers for a live music series ...

That eclectic album featured guitarist Larry Carlton and other acclaimed session musicians while showcasing Houston’s vocal ...

He doesn't understand that this is still an African-American community." Over the years, the gallery served as a gathering spot for art lovers who ... and vowed to paint through the night.

Sanchez had taught classes on slavery and Reconstruction and another on the civil rights movement ... can tell the story of America through an African American lens,” Bunch told USA TODAY ...

Long before African American hair braiding styles reached beauty salons and mainstream runways, they were symbols of heritage passed through generations ... is Beautiful movement sparked a ...

In 1971, during her United States exile and the height of the Black Power Movement, Elizabeth Catlett ... Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art at SAAM and the exhibition’s co-curator.