Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ‘Purpose,’ about pressures within a prominent Black family, wins the best new play Tony Award.

Names were taken from various sources, prominent leaders of the day, occupations, and sometimes names of previous enslavers. During the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, a shift in naming ...

There is a list of other possible name changes of ships named after prominent women and civil rights leaders, a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly tells NPR.

Photograph by Reed Evins Art “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” (at the Met through October 26th) is a heartbreak of a show, brilliant in concept, design, and execution.

The Met Gala on Monday celebrated Black male style. Reporter Herb Scribner discusses. Officials in rural Texas are accused of paying campaign worker who told elderly people how to vote: docs I ...

The exhibit covers Black style over several centuries, but the unifying theme is dandyism, and how designers have expressed that ethos through history. For Agbobly, dandyism is “about taking space.