Dawnavyn James, an elementary school educator who specializes in Black history, reached a turning point in her teaching when a student asked, “Did people see in black and white a long time ago?” The ...

In 2002, Thelma Golden curated a show at the Studio Museum in Harlem titled “Black Romantic: The Figurative Impulse in Contemporary African-American Art.” It was a survey of Black artists who were ...

For many years, school curricula have limited their scope to the same Black figures throughout history. While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman remain ...