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Glyn Philpot’s sensitive portraits of Black subjects, unusual for the early 20th century, were given updated titles — and consideration — for a recent exhibition in England.
I am black when I am having serious conversations with my daughters about racial identity. I am black when I am laughing with my daughters about how ridiculous the concept of racial identity is. I do ...
A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ... formal portrait of a Black American man of the era.
‘David Makes Man’ Is a Complex Portrait of Black Boyhood. The innovative new series from Tarell Alvin McCraney (“Moonlight”) and Michael B. Jordan premieres Wednesday on Oprah Winfrey Network.
Black & White (premiering Oct. 29) takes an in-your-face approach from the first frame: The series begins with an extreme close-up of the real Colin Kaepernick, who serves as narrator and a sort ...
Featuring all Black queer artists, the exhibition is a declaration of presence and a refusal to shrink. “This show is about being visible,” Moore says. “I want to confront erasure.
A Black defendant's right to a fair trial would be harmed if the jury heard the case in a courtroom lined with portraits of white jurists, a Northern Virginia judge has ruled.
The first Black man to win a seat in the Mississippi Legislature in the 20th century was Robert Clark, no relation, a Democrat from Ebenezer who was elected to the House in 1967.