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By turning to legal intervention, universities treat artifacts as intellectual property and miss important opportunities to ...
The DIA’s collection of African American art includes approximately 700 works by noted artists Robert Seldon Duncanson, Richmond Barthe, Elizabeth Catlett, Edward Clark, Mavis Pusey, and more.
Three models shared adjectives most strongly associated with African Americans in the earliest Princeton trials: ‘ignorant’, ‘lazy’ and ‘stupid.’ Ultimately, the team concluded that the associations ...
Morgan State University has become the first HBCU to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale with “ReCall & Response, ...
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.
As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.
MoPop's Associate Curator Adeerya Johnson takes Soundside on a guided tour through their new exhibit "Never Turn Back: Echoes of African American Music" ...
Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.
“Wait Until Tomorrow” is a film screening at the American Black Film Festival in Miami. Courtesy of director Osato Dixon.
At a politically charged commencement ceremony on Thursday, MIT’s class of 2025 president Megha Vemuri, an Indian-American student, used her platform to deliver a bold pro-Palestinian message ...
America did neither, instead passing, over time, a series of civil rights laws that do not mention race in their titles and that black Americans still must fight to get the government to enforce.