Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism ...

Actress Deepti Sadhwani redefined elegance in a breathtaking ensemble during the closing ceremony of Cannes 2025. She ...

With her ethereal fashion choices and sassy diva philosophies, Shalini Passi remains an undisputed fashionista. Gracing the ...

What's more, our conception of skin color as "white" or "Black" would have been foreign to the ancient people living at the time. Cleopatra VII reigned from roughly 51-30 B.C. and was the last ...

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"Queen Cleopatra" stars Adele James — a light brown-skinned British actress who has a white mother and a Black father — as the famous monarch. "Why have we long depicted Cleopatra as white?" ...

The movie depicts Queen Cleopatra, who has Greek origins, as African – backing Afrocentric claims about the “Black” identity of ancient Egypt. Stand-up comedian Kevin Hart was recently banned to ...

Netflix aired a controversial documentary film about Queen Cleopatra VII where the ancient Egyptian queen was represented as black, backing Afrocentric claims that the ancient Egyptian civilization ...

“This is completely fake. Cleopatra was Greek, meaning that she was light-skinned, not Black.” Cleopatra was the last rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a Greek-ruled kingdom descended from ...

“Is she Black?” A Roman noblewoman asks her friend about Cleopatra in Cecil B DeMille’s garish Hollywood epic starring Oscar winner Claudette Colbert as the titular Egyptian monarc ...

In response to the backlash against the trailer, Tina Gharavi, the series’ director, asked viewers and historians in a Variety op-ed, “What bothers you so much about a Black Cleopatra?” Gharavi argued ...

“Queen Cleopatra,” Netflix’s four-part documentary on the most famous Queen of Egypt, has been very poorly reviewed. On Rotten Tomatoes it currently has a tomatometer score of 10%, which ...