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 ...

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.

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 ...

African-American actors were marginalized into largely one-dimensional roles, ... As recent as the 1950s and early ‘60s, just one network show featured an all-black cast.

A place for learning Nine core galleries, a special exhibit space and a genealogy center in the International African American Museum (IAAM) are taking shape to present a sweeping story of the ...

American history classes teach students about the struggles experienced by Black Americans before and after the Civil War. An English assistant professor at the University of Iowa wants to shed light ...

If Peter H. Wood wants to stump some University of Colorado history majors about early American history, he’ll ask them which of the original 13 colonies was the wealthiest before the American ...

A debut survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the exhibition will establish the Harlem Renaissance as the first African American–led movement of international modern art. It will situate ...

Executive committee members of Sewickley’s “Their Stories” documentary project are Bob Patterson (from left), Gwen Strickland, Susan Kaminski and Stratton Nash.

DNA analysis of African Americans buried at an early U.S. iron forge reveals locations of their African and European ancestors and finds more than 40,000 living U.S. relatives. The study is the ...

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) will relocate and reopen its African American art galleries in October 2025. The new galleries will be centrally located near the Rivera Court, showcasing 50 ...