Hip Hop Icon Queen Latifah, Artist Kerry James Marshall and C.E.O. Robert...
Musical artist and Academy Award nominee Queen Latifah, acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall and Robert Smith, founder, chairman and chief executive of…
View ArticleAfrican American Miniature Museum Founder and Artist Karen Collins...
Sixty years ago, four African American college students sat down quietly at a whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North…
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Chelsea Phaire, 10, Donates Over 1,500 Art Kits to Kids in Foster Care and...
(Photo via chelseascharity.com) Chelsea Phaire, a 10-year-old from Danbury, Connecticut, has sent more than 1,500 children in homeless shelters and foster care homes art kits to give them something to...
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Authors N.K Jemisin and Jacqueline Woodson Among 2020 MacArthur “Genius”...
[Top L to R: Monika Schleier-Smith, Ralph Lemon, N.K. Jemisin, Jacqueline Woodson; Bottom L to R: Fred Moten, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Catherine Coleman Flowers, Tressie McMillan Cottom and Thomas...
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Artist Sonya Clark’s “Tatter, Bristle, and Mend” Exhibition on View at the...
[Above image: Sonya Clark, Nap, 2012; Glass beads and board, 16 x 20 x 5 in.; On loan from the artist; © Sonya Clark; Photo by Taylor Dabney] Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend will be on view at...
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Artist Amy Sherald’s Breonna Taylor Portrait on Display at the National...
Best known for painting the official portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama that hangs in the National Gallery, artist Amy Sherald’s painting of Breonna Taylor officially goes on display Friday at the...
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Artist Kerry James Marshall to Create Racial Justice-Themed Stained Glass Art...
Washington National Cathedral recently announced it will replace its stained-glass windows that formerly featured Confederate iconography (removed in 2017) with racial-justice themed windows created by...
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GBN’s Daily Drop: Quote from Contemporary Artist Betye Saar, 95, on Art,...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) Today’s GBN Daily Drop podcast is based on the Saturday, March 5 entry in the “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day®️ Calendar for 2022 that features a...
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Black Lexicon: What “Afrofuturism” Means (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) In today’s Daily Drop, we explore the term “Afrofuturism” and its origin. To read about it and see links to sources, read on. To hear about it, press PLAY:...
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IT’S BACK!! GBN’s “A Year of Good Black News” Page-A-Day Calendar for 2023...
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson, GBN Editor-in-Chief Last fall GBN came out with its first physical product: the A Year of Good Black News Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022, published by Workman Publishing. We are...
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