Self-reliance, stable families and education will lift neighborhoods like mine to untold heights.

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

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

The Black church has long played a significant role in supporting faith and the fight for Civil Rights in America, with its origins dating back to the first African American congregations in the ...

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

Whether the Academy Awards are actually the world's most prestigious award in cinema is up for debate. Since 1929, the ...

Jesus drew a picture of himself and he sent it to the world so we would know what he looked like,” says Jonah, 7.

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.

Share This Post Facebook Pinterest Twitter LinkedinIn 2003, Sharon Moody led a group of local citizens to start the Plant ...

I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...

Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...