A sample of the L.J. West Collection of early photography at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Farrah Skeiky Largely forgotten today, Goodridge was one of the most important African American ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – African American writers in the 19th Century wrote of love, loss, and the Black experience. Les ...

The presentation is in the process of being moved to the heart of the Detroit Institute of Arts, adjacent to the Diego Rivera ...

and Luisita L. Denghausen Endowment. L. J. West Collection of Early African American Photography, Smithsonian American Art Museum. [TOP RIGHT] Unidentified artist, Untitled (woman with hair ribbon), ...

More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ...

National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution ... was organized by Tougaloo and the American Federation of Arts. In the early 1960s, Dore Ashton, a New York based art historian, decided ...

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has acquired a wide-ranging collection of photographs that represent African Americans from the medium’s early years to the near present — roughly the 1840s ...

Added Andrew Thompson, who has known Lee since the early '80s, "It's just a shame. I know a lot of artists who wouldn't have had a place to show anywhere else. This is the oldest African-American ...

“I got most of these early works for $50 or even less ... I’d be able to get a lot more than what I paid.” Her interest in African American art also speaks to her heritage.

Even after a half-century, the fight for African American studies in schools ... or HBCUs, and the early influence of music, film and art on Black identity. The "Movement and Debates" unit has ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- In this edition of "Here and Now," Sandra Bookman looks at how Children of Promise, NYC is creating opportunities for young people whose parents are behind bars. Plus, a new ...

Since then, many artists have contributed to the tapestry ... but given the lack of documentation at the time, a lot of the early African American musicians have, unfortunately, been lost to ...