Braids and locs physically hanging out of paintings. Blue hair. Tresses imagined as bold visual jazz. Hair that’s realistic and hair as symbolic expression.

In 2020, after a summer of protests rocked U.S. cities, the words “Black Lives Matter” went from the rallying cry of racial ...

For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of ...

As soon as the elevator doors open onto the fifth floor of the Whitney Museum, visitors are immediately greeted with the words “Amy Sherald: American Sublime." ...

Routed West” expands on a previous display of Black diaspora works from the 1940-to-1970 Second Migration period.

I didn't know the term before the Met Gala Black Dandy was showcased on the blue carpet. Then it hit me: I lived it.

Before Thoreau's "life in the woods," there was Brister Freeman, a formerly enslaved man who won his freedom serving in the ...

Heritage meets gumption at the Costume Institute’s big spring exhibition, where pathbreaking pieces join anonymous garments to build a moving history.

Art, in any form ... National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)—this order seeks to rewrite history through a white supremacist lens.” The Black Art Movement of the ...

Afrikaners have therefore maintained a hefty chunk of the nation’s wealth. Only 1 percent of white South Africans live in ...

David Goldblatt’s photographs, on view in a brilliant retrospective at Yale, exposed the moral rot of apartheid while ...

School is almost out for the summer. Start making plans for summertime fun by attending festivals with music, food, kid ...