When British author Ekow Eshun felt what he called “a harsh time of unbridled racism” in his native London, he turned his ...

"Whippersnappers," Maya Freelon's moving new exhibition at Historic Stagville, reimagines the lives of enslaved children.

Chika Okeke-Agulu, Robert Schirmer (Professors of Art & Archaeology and African American Studies at Princeton University ... participatory workshops on traditional pottery and rammed earth building, ...

In a couple of days, the cultural landscape of the ancient Benin Kingdom will wear a new look with the formal opening of the ...

Anne Helmreich, director of the Archives of American Art, spoke to the uniqueness of this exhibition from an archival ...

Over the last decade, Afrobeats has become a global phenomenon, bringing African music into the Western mainstream.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago singer and songwriter Ella Jenkins, known as the "First Lady of Children's Music," has died at the ...

Artists from the US and across Africa interpret Dakar exhibition's theme, tied to slavery's past and future repercussions, in ...

Togo artist Modupeola Fadugba explores the relationships within a polygamist marriage in the triptych “Take Back Your Pearls.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A whirlwind of color and art at the opening of this year's Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art ...