Black history, includes art history, and over the years people of color have been portrayed in paintings in various ways and ...

Though MacArthur Cotton was critical of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 82-year-old is even more critical of where things ...

Public voting is open until noon on Feb. 17 ... including the Center for African American Art, one of the first collections devoted to African American art at a major museum.

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the American musical mainstream, creating popular new American music genres ...

Before 1800, free African American men had nominal rights of citizenship. In some places they could vote, serve on juries, and work in skilled trades. But as the need to justify slavery grew ...

Voting is the cornerstone of democracy, and yet the story of voting in America has often been one of exclusion—and many who are able to vote choose not to exercise the right. The fight for voting ...

it did not guarantee voting access to all women. Citizenship laws, poll taxes, threats, and violence barred African American, Latina, Native American, Asian American, immigrant, and poor women. Many ...

Carrie Mae Weems is a contemporary American artist ... (1990), a groundbreaking investigation of African American stereotypes. Weems’ work can be found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of ...

Museums in Martinsville, Wytheville and Lynchburg are among those offering special Black History Month programs.