The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

American music is inextricable from African-American artists. In the 20th century especially, what the masses accepted as ...

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, or BAMPFA, collaborated with local artists to showcase 20th-century African ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A ceremonial groundbreaking will be held Thursday for the rebuilding of one of the nation's oldest Black ...

The quilts, bundled back into acid-free paper and boxes after the viewing, are among 100 from 80 artists soon to be included in “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in ...

WWII-era, they could make the difference between sleeping or freezing for the Black families who moved out of the South ...

The national award supports undergraduate students to pursue graduate studies in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive was about to launch an exhibition of historic quilts, when federal funding ...

Archaeologists uncovered the 18th-century Bray School site, among the first to educate Black children in the U.S., revealing ...