The Black Hollywood Education and Resource Center's 30th Short Film Festival will honor industry leaders and feature over 60 ...

I get chills recalling the sheer power of art that I felt in this room at the National Portrait Gallery, as if the genius loci of Washington, D.C. was standing next to me like a ghost.

When British author Ekow Eshun felt what he called “a harsh time of unbridled racism” in his native London, he turned his ...

The things that confound us often become the subjects of our obsessions. This might explain why so many famous artists create ...

The history of political art, in its vast potential, shows how stories can be crafted and morale can be boosted to spark the ...

A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's ...

The new temporary exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, “The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure,” ...

Happy Veterans Day, DC! This week, ring in the holidays at the opening of ICE! at National Harbor. Dance along to an energetic pop score at Six the musical. Or try one of the other things to do below: ...

She became an international star as a member of the company and later directed it, guiding it out of debt and boosting its popularity.

These books all offer a window onto lives that are different from our own, but no less interesting, important or special.

A whirlwind of color and art at the opening of this year’s Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art in the Senegalese ...