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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After packed-to-the-brim days in Philadelphia and New York City, the final stop of our East Coast train trip was here. Ashley ...

This was the establishment’s first renovation in 30 years,” Dr. Vanessa Thaxton-Ward said. “It gives us the opportunity to ...

In Deborah Kass’s Art History Paintings, the politics of display are just the beginning.

These museums not only preserve Women’s history but also serve as essential resources for the research and study of Black ...