Helen LaFrance was a self-taught folk artist primarily focused on memory paintings—vivid depictions drawn from her ...

But Hughes is one of a handful of artists whose work spanned both the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the ...

Discover the remarkable journey of Dr. Harry Robinson, who transformed the African American Museum of Dallas into a cultural ...

Edward Dudley grew up in the Gainsboro neighborhood in Roanoke and later became the first African American United States ...

African American studies is a new AP class created by the College Board, which administers the tests, and is now available at ...

Shortly after Lisa-Marie Walters Griffiths moved to Frederick from Connecticut last year, she attended a wreath-laying ceremony honoring U.S. military veterans buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery. She ...

Learn about Ann Lowe, the African American fashion designer behind Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding dress, and her lasting impact ...

The Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, a vital institution dedicated to preserving African and Black American ...

The all-Black towns of Oklahoma represent a unique chapter in American history. Nowhere else ... duration and some still ...

Charles Blockson amassed over 700,000 African and African American history artifacts to be displayed in the Temple Collection ...

Hood Design Studio began a collaborative journey for the African Ancestors Memorial Gardens in Charleston, bringing together ...

"If one young person can listen to an oral history and look through the archive and read the study ... and be inspired to ...