Much has been written about Henry Box Brown’s body. The 33-year-old enslaved man from Virginia was 5′10″ and around 200 pounds in the spring of 1849 when he forced himself into a wooden box not much ...

Selznick had to call in a favor to allow McDaniel, her escort for the night and her white agent to sit at a small table up against a far wall of the ... issues faced by African Americans, was ...

According to the National Gallery of Art, unlike the organized, precise patterns that many quilters made from Dutch and English designs, African American quilts were often raw and vibrant. They were ...

Alongside the growth of art fairs in Africa in recent years, international interest in contemporary African artists has risen sharply… some would say to unsustainable heights. Amid a global ...

The Southern University at New Orleans Museum of Art is set to open its latest exhibition, "Liminal Spaces: Selections from the Edward DeCarbo Collection of African Art," honoring the late Dr ...

At their annual summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the organization’s members elected Djibouti Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf as the next chair of the African Union Commission in a secret ...

From the sun-kissed deserts of North Africa to the lush landscapes of the South, African women embody a stunning variety of features, cultures, and traditions that make them truly captivating. Beauty ...

With significant support from Fondation Alliances, Morocco's MACAAL (Musuem of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden) has undergone a major overhaul – providing a permanent home for one of the ...

Caroline is a writer living in New York City. When she’s not covering art, interiors, and celebrity lifestyles, she’s usually buying sneakers, eating cupcakes, or hanging with her rescue bunnies, ...

For this Artist Project, Thomas has created a downloadable version of Colonialism and Abstract Art, his critically creative reworking of that famous chart, to print out at home. With it, he invites us ...