Richard Allen, born into slavery near Smyrna, rose to found the AME Church and promote rights for African Americans.

An unprecedented exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris explores the presence and influence of Black artists in the city ...

Canada's first documented Black woman painter, Edith MacDonald-Brown was overlooked in her time. More than 70 years after her ...

Peggy Montes started the Bronzeville Children's Museum, worked to elect Mayor Harold Washington and seeks to empower, inspire ...

Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ...

Francina and Roderica James share a love for their family, culture and city. And those loves are part of the B&B experience ...

Much has been written about Henry Box Brown’s body. The 33-year-old enslaved man from Virginia was 5′10″ and around 200 pounds in the spring of 1849 when he forced himself into a wooden box not much ...

Ameya Okamoto, Santana Walker, and Celeste Hampton—part of the Smithsonian's Nail Art Project. Photos courtesy of the ...

American Sublime, the artist’s debut solo exhibition at a New York museum and the most comprehensive showing of her work.

One year after accepting the job, the first woman and the first African to head the Open Society Foundations finds time ...

Based in the United States, the NWSL is home to quality players from around the world, including some African stars, like Temwa Chawinga and Barbra Banda, who have taken it by storm in recent years.

“The statue of Cecil Rhodes which stands on the facade of Oriel College in Oxford may be allowed to stay under plans for a ...