On May 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts its annual Met Gala—an enormous world-renowned fundraiser that gathers luminaries from the spheres of art, business, politics, sports, and entertainment ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art A studio portrait of an unnamed American ... around 10,000 African Americans took part in the Silent Protest Parade down New York's Fifth Avenue, the men in black ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes ... allow Black men equality after ...

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to ...

The English referred to these Black men as the “Ethiopian Regiment,” but the group consisted of African American men who ... chose to sport their “good clothes.” In the late 19th century ...