From the Museum of the African Diaspora to two museums dedicated to the Black Panther Party, here are five institutions where ...

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was a protege of Auguste Rodin and shaped the Harlem Renaissance. The African American Museum in ...

More Perfect Union Newsletter Please enter a valid email address. Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter! The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the nation’s first art museum and school.

By acknowledging some of the famous Black American artists — not to mention those that came before, during and after each — we honor their contributions to the arts, amplify their voices and ...

Alicia Keys has spent her entire career challenging norms—whether it’s her genre-bending music, her activism, or her famous decision to ditch makeup and embrace natural beauty. Her refusal to conform ...

As Black consciousness grew and evolved in the 1960s, however, Black artists wanted to go beyond that criteria. They wanted to place African American ... country’s most famous dance ensembles.

Bonifacia, one of seven sisters from the Omuto Community, Province of Urcos, is dressed in a cherry-pink wool jacket ...

Sherald has said she paints Black people not so much as a historical corrective (African Americans are hugely underrepresented in U.S. art museums) but with an impulse simply to celebrate them.

her version made the record sound more like a gospel record than an American folk song. Who would’ve thought that someone as talented as Michael Jackson would need to cover another artist’s song?

In 2017, in the first year of the Obama administration, the First Couple selected two up-and-coming Black artists to paint their official portraits: POTUS went for Kehinde Wiley, and FLOTUS for Amy ...

Here is a roll call of some noteworthy figures who died in 2024 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available): ...