Invisible Man, Got The Whole World Watching. A Young Black Man’s Education
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Mother Emanuel-inspired Exhibition Closes This Sunday
The Passages Artists Collective seeks a permanent home for African-American artists
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New Ava DuVernay Doc to Explore Racial Inequality’s Impact on Mass Incarceration: ‘Our Population Has Been Demonized’
Ava DuVernay will make history when her documentary exploring mass incarceration and racial inequality opens this year’s New York Film Festival.
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Jerry Pinkney’s Illustrated World, An Escape from a Nation in Conflict
To this day, as the world gets more complicated, with more stress on me, my family, my community, and our world, I can retreat to my imagination and the act of making pictures.
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UT Professor Tackles Sordid Tale of 1880s Dismemberment
University of Texas professor Kali Nicole Gross has a homicidal maniac as her muse — and that led her to write “Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America.”
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Selling The Blues
To draw tourists, the Mississippi Delta plays on its musical heritage
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Documenting New Orleans’ Black Community – In Pictures
The Historic New Orleans Collection has acquired the photo archive of photojournalist Harold F. Baquet, its first collection by a black photographer.
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Juneteenth: Black America’s Independence Day
“On this day 150 years ago, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the slaves of Galveston, Texas finally received word that the Civil War was over.
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Celebrating Artist: Jerry Jordan | Painter
He counts such artist as Henry O Tanner, John S. Sargent, Joaquin Sorolla and Aaron Douglas just to name a few, as his major artistic influences.
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