When former first lady Michelle Obama’s official portrait was unveiled on Feb. 12, 2018, at the National Portrait Gallery, the crowd present and all who looked on virtually were witnessing major ...

The Black subject of a 19th-century portrait by Thomas Phillips has been identified, following analysis by the U.K.'s ...

Laila Annmarie Stevens discuss her work “Clayton Sisterhood Project” on queer kinship, Black Self-Determination, and ...

This exhibition features more than 25 photographs by Brian Lanker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who, in 1989, published the extraordinarily popular book I Dream a World: Portraits of Black ...

As a child, Mae Upperman remembers sitting on porches with loved ones, talking over lemonade and cookies under the summer sun. This was one of the most joyful parts about growing up as a Black girl, ...

With help from Penn State’s Center for Black Digital Research, the mural draws attention to the activism of 19th-century Black women.

Irma Stern' s captivating portrait of a Cape Muslim woman has made headlines, selling for a staggering R21.7 million at ...

The photo is as alluring as it is mysterious. Adorned in a regal, old-fashioned black satin gown and a majestic hairstyle piled high atop her head, a stately young African woman fearlessly traverses ...

The National Army Museum in London has recently identified the likely subject of a portrait of a black soldier in its ...

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