For many years, Black artists – famous and un-famous ... Although his creations still showed signs of abstract art, they ...

Christy a famous — and a wealthy — man ... Emmett began to take jobs with circuses, performing as an African American impersonator and musician. Some time around 1838, he wrote "Bill ...

What isn’t being collected? Where are the gaps?” Ankori applauds her predecessors’ strides toward inclusiveness — Christopher Bedford’s focus on African American abstract artists, Luis Croquer’s ...

Discover the inspiring journey of mixed-media artist Cyrus Nelson, who turned his passion for art into a successful career in Atlanta.

Viewers should lose themselves in Jeremy Okai Davis’ latest portrait exhibit, from the stage, a calling…, which opens ...

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THIRD MOMENT – the AFL/NFL Merger, 1966 sculpture by artist David Griggs was installed on June 23, 2016. His art is abstract. It meant to capture ... Although there were a handful of African American ...

I was trying to create a reflection of what in my past I had felt had run parallel: Native Americans, African ... American, he is free to draw. (Or, perhaps, a reminder of the claim that the early ...

The song, which she’d learned in Eatonville, tells the story of the famous African American folk hero ... She was convinced that great art came from the “Negro farthest down.” ...

The extraordinarily productive executive, arranger, and producer put an indelible stamp on the sound of American music from ...

The subject of a bestseller who led a remarkable life as a scholar and cultural force while hiding her Black identity is the ...

Team co-captains Nick Bottini and Lou Reale received the trophy during a Sunday night broadcast of "The Ed Sullivan Show" and dined that evening in Manhattan's famous ... team's two African ...