For the black community in Chicago and elsewhere, Johnson Publishing Company represented a certain kind of hope.
View MoreCategory: Art
Why Did It Take So Long for Class-Based School Integration to Take Hold?
Half a century ago, the Coleman Report revealed that socioeconomic diversity is key to removing racial inequalities in education.
View More
Detroit’s First Black Tattoo Art & Music Expo Comes to Eastern Market
Tattoo art is a cultural practice that can be traced back through human history for thousands of years.
View More
Art That Lifts The Lid on Today’s Black America
Artist Sanford Biggers goes head-to-head on issues like Black Lives Matter, race visibility, and history with poet and friend Saul Williams.
View More
Field Niggas review – Hallucinatory Portrait of New York Street Life
Both gorgeous and achingly sad, this nocturnal creep into African American disenfranchisement refuses to judge its subjects, many addicted to cannabinoid K2.
View More
‘Breaking a Monster,’ or How 3 African American Kids from Brooklyn Became Heavy Metal Superstars
When Malcolm Brickhouse, Jarad Dawkins and Alec Atkins were barely old enough stay upright on a bike, they formed a band, calling themselves Unlocking the Truth.
View More
Simone Leigh’s The Waiting Room: Art That Tries to Heal Black Women’s Pain
The artist’s new exhibition pays tribute to Esmin Elizabeth Green, who died on the floor of a New York City hospital, by presenting an alternative vision of the US healthcare system
View More
Kip Omolade on His Amazing Afrofuturistic Portraits Inspired by Nigeria’s Ife Bronze Heads
Having come of age in NYC during the formative years of hip-hop in the 80s, even attending the same alternative arts high school Jean-Michel Basquiat graduated from years prior, mixed media artist Kip Omolade’s Diovadiova Chrome paintings and masks are truly something special to behold.
View More
A Seattle Dad’s Dying Gift: That his Little Daughter Knows Her African-American Heritage
[three_fourth padding=”0 15px 0 0px”]A Seattle Dad’s Dying Gift: That his Little Daughter Knows Her African-American Heritage CHRISTINE CLARRIDGE | THE SEATTLE TIMES A dying father is given a lifetime membership to the Northwest African American Museum for his 3-year-old daughter and her “beautiful” white foster family in Bellevue. He hopes they will adopt her […]
View More
The African Union is Introducing a Single Passport to Make Travel on the Continent Easier for Africans
When heads of state from across Africa arrive in Kigali, Rwanda next month for the African Union (AU) Summit, they will be among the first Africans issued the new electronic African Union passport.
View More