February is Black History Month, and that means it's a great time to take stock of some of the Black creators who have helped ...

Called “Black Memorabilia” and “Black Americana” at times, blackface characters and apparel have had a long run in America. Now, the African American Museum is confronting their legacy head-on.

Luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance and beyond are celebrated and memorialized in 25 commemorative plaques that now bear ...

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture has its roots in the Harlem Renaissance, one of the richest cultural ...

Black authors are not being listened to by people who hold high positions in institutions and society in general. Black ...

At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

Katie Mitchell, an Atlanta author and owner of Instagram store Good Books ATL, spent two years touring the country’s Black bookstores.

From picture books to graphic novels, fantasy to family fun, these must-read books have the power to hook kids of any gender. Some are cultural touchstones that belong in every kid's library. Others ...

Eric Tucker, who lived and died in Warrington, created over 500 rosy paintings of everyday life, as nephew Joe relates in The Secret Painter ...

It relates to the Green Book, a travel guide published from 1936-67 that listed hotels, summer camps, restaurants, hairdressers, and other services where Black travelers were welcome and would not ...

Seeing the decline of Western civilization in the trash art of movies is why The Day of ... Hackett, his bungalow neighbor Faye Greener (Karen Black), her vaudevillian has-been father (Burgess ...