The Amy Sherald SFMOMA show is the artist's largest to date, featuring her Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor paintings.

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When educator Jane Dabney Shackelford wrote and published The Child’s Story of the Negro and Helen Adele Whiting wrote Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades and Negro Art, Music and Rhyme ...

The exhibition-as-memoir of Linda Griggs, a group show as history lesson, Odili Donald Odita’s vibrant abstractions, and more.

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Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral and later by private family services and interment in Plains, Georgia.