Alonzo Davis, the artist and educator who cofounded Los Angeles's storied African American stronghold the Brockman Gallery, ...

When educator Jane Dabney Shackelford wrote and published The Child’s Story of the Negro and Helen Adele Whiting wrote Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades and Negro Art, Music and Rhyme ...

As for the Relf sisters, they received nothing. No damages, no financial compensation. Alabama offered nothing to those who ...

My introduction to art happened in my hometown of Athy, Co Kildare. It was an age of belief; religion dominated everyday ...

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Caroline Blackwood, 1953. When Lady Caroline Blackwood walked through the graveyard that housed her ancestors, she felt ...

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was a protege of Auguste Rodin and shaped the Harlem Renaissance. The African American Museum in ...

There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his ...

Initially bereft of ideas, an evening’s discussion on the nature of life sowed the seed in the 18-year-old Mary Shelley née Godwin of the ... a rebellious streak Shelley absorbed from her late mother, ...

“There are so many Black artists from the 19th century whose work has been lost,” said Quinones, whose 1838 Black Metropolis website is an interactive study of Philadelphia’s free Black society during ...

There is something a little sad about the non-relationship between Donald John Trump and Lewis. Despite his genetic proximity to the place, he ...

White, Kenneth Kellogg, Mary Elizabeth Williams and Joshua Conyers ... earliest known surviving full-length opera composed by a Black American, but researchers aren’t sure why the work wasn ...