Marlène Dumas is a renowned South African artist known for her captivating portraits that explore emotional states and human ...

click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait.

“The Time Is Always Now” is a touring exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London, where Eshun is ...

Here are some of the women who've transformed television, from Betty White and Lynda Carter to Oprah Winfrey and Quinta ...

From Oprah Winfrey to Pattie Labelle, look at some of the most famous Black women celebrities over 70 and the legacies they've built.

Two young women stared out of the frame at her. One was fair-skinned, the other Black. Misan, a medical student at the ...

Kiana Hayeri’s anonymous photo is just one of many she took, in collaboration with researcher Mélissa Cornet, to show the ...

Mary DeBardelaben made a promise she’d find out how her grandmother died at the hands of lawmen who raided her rural Alabama home in 1945. Now she’s finally learning the whole truth.

Mr. Vance’s wife, Usha, was next to her husband, smiling up at him in an off-the-shoulder little black dress. Not far away ...

Three Black women, all Democrats, have served in the U.S. Senate. Two were elected ‒ Carol Moseley Braun from Illinois, who served from 1993 to 1999, and Kamala Harris from California, who served from ...

Keturah Johnson, international vice president for flight attendant union AFA-CWA, poses by a decades old, outdated poster ...

Homecoming weekends in many battleground states had extra significance this year, weeks before the Nov. 5 election.