For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of ...

let alone a Black woman artist.” Meta and Solomon met in Boston in 1905 After some downtime, Warrick Fuller’s mother suggested she go stay with family in Boston and take a break from art.

Elijah Pierce was a barber and world-renowned artist known for his Biblical ... according to Fuller-Yates and the Columbus Black Heritage Collection. Her family home still stands in the middle ...

The street where Thomas—the first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art—lived for most of her ...

added the artist. “It’s about having a figure that can simultaneously speak to the future and the past, and I honestly feel like a Black female figure is the best figure to do that for a ...

Stevie Wonder became the first Black artist to win in 1974 for "Innervisions." He has since won thrice. Beyoncé took home the award in 2025 for "Cowboy Carter." Since the Grammy Awards celebrated ...

The U.S. has a long history of police brutality against Black and brown people ... Cornell Watson Courtesy of Artist (Weems: Audoin Desforges—Rolex; Owunna: Ajamu X; Reece: Mamadou Kaba Dia ...

One decade—and, per the Washington Post, 238 gallons of white paint, 286 bottles of black drawing ... the artist is “pretty committed to staying in it.” Gareth Fuller / PA Images Given ...

gallerists who realized they didn’t represent a single Black artist suddenly went to recruit them. And collectors — including many Black newcomers to the market — wanted in on the action.

In the exhibit, a poem outlines a wall written in black charcoal as Dreams both scary and bright are rarely right, but often true. To the figurative artist it means nothing and many things ...