In southern Africa townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, ...

The shocking news of Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s demise reached me on the night of Wednesday this week, in the deep stillness of the night.The somber message came through the sorrowful voice of Prof ...

In an upper room above those streets, the Book of Acts tells us, disciples of Jesus, recently crucified, cowered. Yet, filled ...

From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum ...

Mary Rockefeller Morgan, daughter of Nelson and Michael’s twin, was determined to honor her family of collectors, and ...

Led by the husband-and-wife duo, Art Melanated is making a way for creatives of color—one exhibition at a time.

Here are five recent headlines putting Black art in the spotlight, from 17th-century sitters to masters of Nigerian Modernism ...

Almost 2,000 objects from three disparate geographic areas are back on view at The Met in a light-filled wing overlooking Central Park redesigned by WHY Architecture and Beyer Blinder Belle.

Sun Yitian was featured in a collab with Louis Vuitton and is currently having a solo show with Esther Schipper in Berlin.

Tinubu described the Motherland Festival, which aims to bring together voices from across Africa and the diaspora, as a ...