A Black Art Dealer Lent Paintings to a Museum. His Heirs Want Them Back.
In its founding years in the early 20th century, the Louisiana State Museum borrowed dozens of artworks from Marshall Marcell ...
Religion News Service5h
More than 60 years later, Langston Hughes’ ‘Black Nativity’ is a pillar of African American theater
But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...
Artnet3h
An Under-Sung Black Sculptor Steps Into the Spotlight After Decades of Obscurity
Welancora Gallery shines a spotlight on 81-year-old artist Helen Evans Ramsaran, who makes bronze sculpture inspired by ...
20 Black Art Exhibitions You Can’t Miss This Winter
Experience the vibrancy and impact of BIPOC art across the globe that explore themes of community, struggle, and triumph.
National Catholic Reporter2d
The Catholic Church should canonize these worthy Black Americans
The U.S. Catholic Church has a painful history of racism. One step toward healing could be canonization of the six African ...
Artnet5d
These Five Trailblazing American Women Are Being Honored on Quarters in 2025
She was the first Black athlete ... and Cuban-American singer Celia Cruz. The 2023 honorees were Bessie Coleman, the first African American and first Native American woman licensed pilot ...
CNN29d
First Black woman major general honored as sponsor for US combat ship
with African American trailblazer Maj. Gen. Marcia Anderson as the ship’s chosen sponsor. Anderson is nationally recognized for being the first Black woman to achieve the rank of major general ...
CBS News5d
U.S. Mint announces 5 women on new quarters for 2025. Here's who will be on the coins.
Wells was a prominent African ... the first Black player to win the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. The Treasury partnered with the Smithsonian Institution's American Women's History ...
The Grio11d
Ann Cole Lowe: The trailblazing African American couturier
However, not everyone knows that a Black designer created this iconic garment. That’s because the African-American woman behind it ... Growing up, Lowe learned the art of dressmaking from ...