All his male black friends died before the women in their lives died. In his late 80s, he once again has to circumnavigate a new challenge: how does an elderly black man grieve a life of loss?

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early modern England.

An exhibition in Cambridge, England uses contemporary portraits to give a face to prominent Black rebels and abolitionists of history.

“Personal to Political” lives up to its name at Sarasota Art Museum. It showcases the work of 17 Black contemporary artists affiliated with Paulson Fontaine Press. They all get personal when it comes ...

Redheads may face teasing—Black people have faced generations of systemic, legalized oppression. Borrowing Black pain to validate other struggles doesn't build solidarity—it erases context.

Object Details painter Pierce, M. Subject Unidentified Notes Flower, Dean, and Francis Murphy, "A Catalogue of American Painting, Water Colors and Drawings (to 1923) in the George Walter Vincent Smith ...

According to the CDC, Black women are more than three times more likely to die during childbirth compared to white women. NBC News' Zinhle Essamuah spoke to a man who lost his wife to childbirth ...

The White House unveiled its official portrait of first lady Melania Trump on Monday. Mrs. Trump is pictured in a suit, standing in front of a window with the Washington Monument in the rearview ...

John Thomas was a black man and World War I vet hired 100 years ago in 1924 at Broadway Baptist Church.