As an African American artist, Tanner was certainly ... Once you are done with our list, you can dig out other famous Black ...

White’s mural, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy (1943) at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across history. He saw art as a ...

As a Black woman, Linda McMillion takes great pride in the African American art that covers almost every wall of her home in ...

A Smithsonian curator reflects back on the artistic legend, a "Renaissance man" with 28 Grammys to his name, who died Sunday ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions ... Hunter is often compared to another famous self-taught artist, Grandma Moses, and is considered one of ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course next year at Yale University.

TN Smithsonian American Art Museum Rhythmic Blues National Museum of African American History and Culture Costume worn by Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues National Museum of ...

Charlie Patton's great two-part song ... but remained on the periphery. There were a few African American artists who had mainstream appeal: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and people like ...

Presenting American audiences a diverse survey of contemporary African artists for the first time in a gallery setting marks a great opportunity for U.S. collectors, but also a risk for the owners.

That includes law professors who hope to engage a new generation of lawyers by using a famous celebrity like Swift ... of the ...

Temple Isaiah of Great Neck will be hosting an art lecture ... Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. This is the first of a series of presentations on African American art by Dennis Raverty, an award-winning teacher ...