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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Art Institute of Chicago’s Project a Black ... One that resonates with me a great deal is a self-portrait by the African American artist Buford Delaney. It’s called “Self-Portrait ...

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

Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. America needed James Baldwin (1924–1987) during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. With African American voting rights ...