The film "Right On Be Free" emphasizes the importance of art and community in the African American experience. It calls for black individuals to engage with their heritage through artistic ...

Washington Art Matters: Art Life in the Capital 1940–1990 By Jean Lawlor Cohen, Elizabeth Tebow, and Sidney Lawrence. The Washington Arts Museum—a now-defunct group devoted to local artists—put ...

The grand entrance to the exhibition “Project a Black Planet” at the Art Institute displays an African cultural pantheon created by Hale Aspacio Woodruff in 1952. (Provided by AIC) Expand ...

A researcher typed sentences like "Black African doctors providing care for white suffering children" into an artificial intelligence program designed to generate photo-like images.

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of people joined a rally on May 3 to show support for the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the wake of threats by the Trump administration and ...

The New Orleans Museum of Art is facing sharp criticism for hiring a white woman to become its new Francoise Billion Curator of African Art rather than hiring a Black person.

Nyjah Watson works with Johnathan White on an assignment in the AP African American Studies course at Firestone CLC, a high school in Akron, Ohio, in October.

Altadena, Calif., has been a haven for Black artists for decades. Betye Saar, in patterned dress, and Charles White, in sunglasses, at Art in the Afternoon, an exhibition at the home of Jeffalyn ...

Art history classes overlooked or denigrated Black-produced art as “primitive” and unworthy for study. History classes distorted—or denied—racism, viewing the world through a white lens.

Throughout Black history, there has been a long, sad and often nasty tradition of attempts to censor popular art forms, from the characterization of the blues, ragtime and jazz as “the devil’s ...

COLUMBIA — A man from Columbia has expressed his love for art in an industry where you don't see many African Americans. Lee Carter is the owner of Immortal Art, a tattoo and piercing studio.