A groundbreaking digital exhibition and documentary about Black identity debuted during Soul Basel and Miami Art Week via The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (Miami MoCAAD).
Racism is a widespread issue in the United States, resulting in disparities including access to healthcare, life expectancy and homicide rates for Black men. Despite average life expectancy among ...
Where you live can be just as important as how you live. That’s the takeaway from two major data sources examining Black life expectancy across the United States, with findings that point to some ...
Created to serve as a tribute to the power of the Black family photo album, Black Archives: A Photographic Celebration of Black Life by Renata Cherlise is a vivid celebration of the informal snapshot ...
When I was living in West Philadelphia during graduate school, I noticed that my neighborhood abounded with ornately decorated Victorian-style porches, many of which featured ceilings painted in a ...
RaMell Ross, A.V. Rockwell, Raven Jackson and Garrett Bradley are the new Black directors chronicling Black life at a different speed. By Robert Daniels By bending time and leaning on nonlinear ...
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He was a prominent member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective that nurtured Black photographers at a time when they were marginalized by the mainstream. The photographer Beuford Smith in an undated ...
For Black women who are divesting themselves of the harmful “strong Black woman” trope, the #softlife doesn’t simply mean having an abundance of wealth, luxury, and status. As many of us release the ...
There’s a rich history of Black inventors in the United States that likely begins before our current historical record—but there’s plenty of noteworthy individuals we know of who changed the world ...
In 1923, UCLA, then known as the Southern Branch of the University of California, was home to just a few thousand students and was still two years away from granting its first degrees. Greek life, ...