When you think of silent films of the 1920s, it's easy to think of the caricatures. The piano music. The villain with the handlebar mustache. But the caricatures of African-Americans were even worse.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, the L. J. West Collection of Early African American Photography, Museum purchase made possible through the Franz H. and Luisita L. Denghausen Endowment. G. J.

The California African American Museum is unveiling a pair of shows that explore a little-known genre of cinema — race films of the silent era.These shows, “Center Stage: African Amer… ...

Right: A 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch daguerreotype portrait with applied color of an unidentified boy by James P. Ball. Smithsonian American Art Museum, the L. J. West Collection of Early African American ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, has purchased a groundbreaking collection of images by some of history’s earliest Black photographers. Pictures from the first African ...

Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North Through March 24, 2024, at the American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, Manhattan; (212) 595-9533, folkartmuseum.org ...

Last chance to catch Dawoud Bey's "Elegy" at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Exhibit closes Sunday, Feb. 25. Check out Michael Paul Williams' take on the show.

As the Del Mar National Horse Show marks its 70th anniversary this year, the Del Mar Library is putting on a program Feb. 12 about the largely unknown stories of famed African American jockeys in ...

For African Americans in the early 20th century, Central Illinois certainly offered brighter opportunities — socially, politically and economically — than the Deep South.