The film "Right On Be Free" emphasizes the importance of art and community in the African American experience. It calls for black individuals to engage with their heritage through artistic expression, ...

Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong ...

From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...

The Museum of African American History, which operates locations in Boston and Nantucket, was notified of the cuts late ...

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its ...

Arts education enhances academic success, creativity, empathy, and inclusion—making it a vital, not optional, part of every ...

The exhibit also highlighted the remarkable role women have played in America’s history. It included a 1931 edition of the ...

A blockbuster show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris spotlights 300-plus works by 150 artists of African heritage ...