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.

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 ...

That rhyme is among the lyrics in the 1929 Fats Waller song “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue,” an eloquent and haunting evocation of the experience of being a Black man in America.

The Black Family Reunion honored longtime WLWT anchor Courtis Fuller as festivities continued into the weekend in Cincinnati.The third day of the event had food, music and community at the Courtis ...