On view at the New Orleans Museum of Art from April 4 through August 10, the exhibition will then embark on parallel tours to venues in North America and Africa.

Fern Cloud has been a hide artist for three decades, and teaches classes throughout the state in an effort to keep her ...

An Athens museum has invited people of African descent in Greece to tell their stories for an innovative exhibition about ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

In 2016, former President Barack Obama opened the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

Several years ago, the owners of an old, dusty painting walked into an art gallery in Vienna. They presented experts with a ...

A career-long retrospective of the iconic artist and activist’s work examines racism, inequality, and the beauty of Blackness ...

For the longest time, "Portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona" was thought to have been lost. Though Gustav Klimt portrayed the nobleman in 1897, the painting had not been seen since 1938. The ...

For the longest time, "Portrait of Prince William Nie Norte Dowuona," was thought to have been lost. Though Gustav Klimt portrayed the nobleman in 1897, the painting had not been seen since 1938. The ...

So who were our mysterious human ancestors? Fossil evidence suggests that species such as Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis lived both in Africa and other regions during this period, making them ...

Scientists have discovered that an unknown group of human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes ... When Asian Homo erectus came back to Africa as Homo sapiens they interbred with the relic ...

It embodies the common ancestor revered by the Dong people. Sama Festival was included on the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2006.