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CCH Pounder’s portrait collection is part of the African American Museum’s ongoing exhibit
A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the ...
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African American Californian history awaits under the Golden Gate Bridge
Housed in the former living quarters for soldiers on the third tier of the fort at the top of a hand-cut, granite spiral ...
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One family’s stories prove to be a window on Black struggle and persistence in American history
The story Lewis tells in “The Stained Glass Window” was inspired by an antique window in an Atlanta church, a portrait ... family to flee rural Georgia and move to the most vital African ...
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An Early Portrait Commissioned by an American Born Into Slavery Goes on View
James Alexander Simpson, “Portrait ... figure from American history. The artist also painted one of two known portraits of Yarrow Mamout, a formerly enslaved African-American Muslim man who ...
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Trump orders elimination of ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian institutions
A portrait of President Trump was displayed ... The order singles out the National Museum of African American History and Culture as problematic, claiming that it informs visitors that “hard ...
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Brooklyn’s remarkable and unknown Black history revealed: ‘Slaveholding capital’
An African-American family on Coney Island in the mid-19th century -- an image that reflect's Brooklyn's rich and little-known African-American history. Brooklyn Museum, Long before it became the ...
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PHOTOS: MLK Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo
The MLK Jr. African American Heritage Rodeo took to the Denver Coliseum on Jan. 20, 2025, as part of the National Western Stock Show in Denver. The rodeo honors the legacy of legendary cowboy Bill ...