Black History

Samella Lewis, artist and writer who famously documented African-American art history, died at 98. Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, confirmed that Lewis died on Friday due to natural causes. Samella Lewis was a pioneer in…

A New York City Commission has unanimously voted to remove the Natural History Museum's statue of Theodore Roosevelt from the premises. The American Museum of Natural History first announced its intention to remove the statue last year.…

Murals celebrating Black women activists will pop up in Brooklyn this summer, starting with Juneteenth. The first of these murals will be unveiled today. The work is the creation of artist-activist Helena Metaferia, who is primarily…

The City of London Corporation has decided to remove the statutes of two politicians who were said to have some links with the slave trade. The first statute belonged to William Beckford who was the Mayor of London twice in the late 18th…

A memorial dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King is approved to be unveiled by next fall in Boston Common. The memorial has been designed by artist Hank Willis Thomas along with a team of architects from…

The Time magazine recently announced its coveted Times 100 list, and it included personalities from all walks of life – including art. From the art world, the names mentioned included Kerry James Marshall, Cindy Sherman and David Adjaye.…

Merely a day after the toppled slave trader statue in Bristol was replaced by artist Marc Quinn's "A Surge of Power", it was removed by the city administration.  Black Lives Matter protests emerged in June across the US after…

A horde of proud but defiant black folks took on the streets, shouting slogans like “Death or Freedom” and “On To New Orleans”. Some were unarmed while others had weapons. Some walked barefoot while others had horses. But all of them had a…