Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm ...

I'd found a number of portraits that depict their black subjects as real people, not caricatures, and Joseph Johnson's was one of those. It was etched by John Thomas Smith in 1815 and appeared in ...

In the last act of his life, my father might be teaching me one final lesson: how an elderly black man is supposed to grieve. I call this class A Portrait Of Grief As An Elderly Black Man.

Meanwhile, Obama’s presidential portrait reflects faintly in ... Anyssa Ranetkins, Youth In Motion, Rue Saint-Martin: “People often talk about the Black community as if we’re a monolith.

The documentary Portrait of Jason was released in October ... His candid reflections on his experiences as a Black gay man, his cabaret dreams, and his triumphs over racism and homophobia ...

The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873 ... He went on to become the first Black man in the country to hold a judicial position when he became a justice of the peace in Massachusetts.