At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

And until now, their faces were recognizable only in grainy black-and-white photographs. Davis based all but one of the portraits on those historic images. For that one, he used an image of the ...

Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)” examines the influential Sly and the Family Stone front man. It also probes a ...

Read how a historic black-and-white portrait from 1963 was colourised for a very special edition for Denis Law.

Frustrated with the absence of positive representations of Black people in art, John Wilson responded by providing images of Black dignity while addressing the painful realities of racial prejudice.

A range of interpretations and depictions of the Black figure is currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (through ...

Enough cannot be said about the singing, the dancing, the costume and production design and more in William Kentridge's ...

The sort of throngs you’d expect for a generational prize fight—all of them hoping to get a ticket to the most sensational ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum in New Smyrna Beach is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the city's historically Black Westside community.

I served as the lead historian and researcher for an exhibition where three of these portraits are now on display, “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom ... than to be a white man’s ...