Category: Black Art

“They were building community and spreading the wealth within the community and enhancing other Black people, and it was all stripped away,” the founder of the advocacy group Where Is My Land said.   —  BY, ALICIA VICTORIA LOZANO AND LINDSEY DAVIS LOS ANGELES — With the flick of a pen Thursday, California Gov. Gavin […]

The suit comes after a monthslong investigation, which Attorney General Mark Herring said uncovered a pattern of “discriminatory, unconstitutional policing.”   —  BY, JENNY GROSS Virginia’s attorney general filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the town of Windsor, seeking changes in policing and saying that his office’s monthslong investigation uncovered evidence of discriminatory, unconstitutional policing. […]

  —  BY, CHRISTINE MICHEL CARTER SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR In the past ten years, global category-leading manufacturers like Procter & Gamble and Unilever have seized the opportunity to create specific products that appeal to diverse consumers. These consumers spent $473 million in total hair care (a $4.2 billion industry). In addition, they made other significant investments […]

  —  BY, SANDRA VARNER FOR SACRAMENTO OBSERVER Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a trailblazing Black transgender lawyer, professor, poet and priest whose struggle for justice and equality comes to life in “My Name Is Pauli Murray,” a newly released documentary. Murray knew intimately what it meant to live a life that was out of sync […]

  —  BY, ALEX DELUCA At the start of the fall semester, royal blue and bright orange signs that read “Welcome, new Lions!” decorate the 44-acre Florida Memorial University (FMU) campus in Miami Gardens. On this balmy, late-summer day, a handfulof backpack-toting students vie for the shade of the aging 1960s-era residence halls on the […]

“They were building community and spreading the wealth within the community and enhancing other Black people, and it was all stripped away,” the founder of the advocacy group Where Is My Land said.   —  BY, ALICIA VICTORIA LOZANO AND LINDSEY DAVIS LOS ANGELES — With the flick of a pen Thursday, California Gov. Gavin […]

Emerging Ghanaian artist Hamid Nii Nortey has released 20 new figurative paintings of glamorous city scenes that reflect the changing urban and social landscape of Ghana’s capital, Accra. It’s a place that has seen huge transformation in recent decades, one that Nortey now hopes to shine a light on while dispelling any outdated narratives of Africa.   […]

The artist, who painted Michelle Obama, took care to draw on details from Taylor’s life.   — Miles Pope, Vanity Fair For more than 20 years, Amy Sherald has been putting the narratives of Black families and Black people to canvas. In 2016, she became the first woman and first African American to win the Outwin […]

  —  Peggy Burch, Daily Memphian The artist Luther Hampton sits at a table next to the bar at B.B. King’s Blues Club on Beale, drawing his own face on the sketch book in front of him. When someone sits down across from him, after an exchange of pleasantries, he asks for more coffee, turns […]

  —  Tony Bravo, DATEBOOK, San Francisco Chronicle When Tyler Gordon paints, he starts with the darkest and most defined facial features: the line of the eyes, the structure of the jaw, the shadow from the chin. He continues with the medium-shaded areas, lips, hair, nose, then and finishes with the lightest surfaces, like the […]