... African American artists, including those from the Caribbean. His influential book Modern Negro Art (1943) was the first to place the contributions of ...

1. Kehinde Wiley Famous, of course, for painting the presidential portrait of Barack Obama, Kehinde Wiley paints black sitters in a Heroic style.

Evolving the artform: from ancestral traces to modern moves ... Dance in Britain has evolved through the successive interactions of people from around the world, ...

The most famous story of a horseshoe bringing good luck, however, refers to ... Things only went downhill for black cats from there, with people of the ...

... people who are unable to speak for themselves.” In this image, Parks depicts the famous African American Muslim and human rights activist Malcolm X. Malcolm ...

For generations, African Americans worked collectively to survive and thrive amid historical and ongoing oppression. Our museum uplifts changemakers who have ...

Protesters highlighted the multiple layers of discrimination faced by Black people including Black trans people. ... As modern times seem to keep getting ...

Jean Pigozzi – collector of contemporary African art, and photographer – visited the exhibition and was struck by the beauty of these photos. He asked André ...

From astronauts to artists, meet the Latinas who've shaped the U.S. today “People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true”, ...

They spoke out against racism. They established women's clubs to improve conditions for African Americans. They worked in politics and journalism, organized ...

... famous for. Christie Brown, Autumn / Winter 2019 (2019) by Aisha ... The Luxury womenswear brand aims to satisfy the stylish urge of the modern African ...

... Africans and African Americans in Western Pennsylvania. Explore a sampling of influential people, rare artifacts, and fascinating historical photographs ...

... modern science, there are many ... There are many inspiring stories of Black people throughout the history of science and many more being written today.

The so-called Bantos, the Yoruba and the Fons peoples, coming from different regions, which today correspond to the current African countries of Angola, Congo, ...

In one of the most famous of these, he ruled that slave owners did not have ... “People may think 'oh, there weren't really any black people in Britain ...

In 1986 Wole Soyinka was the first black African playwright to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Nigeria is famous for it's beautiful and diverse ...

Kente is the most famous of all African textiles, and one of the world's most complicated weavings. ... Modern cloths are found in innovative designs, mainly in ...

He toured with some of the famous big bands of the 1940s (including the Louis Armstrong Orchestra), accompanied many pioneering jazz musicians such as Charlie ...

The Ben Moore Hotel was built in 1951 and opened its doors to African Americans in 1952. ... famous customers, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Dexter ...

In the late 1920s the Gold Coast businessman Charles Francis Hutchison published the first volume of his book titled The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and ...