Women and girls of African descent continue to face multiple and overlapping forms of discrimination, manifesting in higher rates of poverty (SDG 1), barriers to education (SDG 4), limited access ...

As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences ...

“She was a person way ahead of her time,” Kanaga’s friend and fellow photographer Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) once said of her ...

The painting is one of 11 portraits of African heads of state and former heads of state produced by Wiley as part of a secret, decade-long project titled "A Maze of Power," on display at the ...

The 50th woman to fly into space, Karen Nyberg has paid tribute to the first woman and first American woman to do so with a pair of original works celebrating the first 60 years of women in space.

Inspired by European masterpieces but rooted in his own milieu, the painter produced dazzling portraits of African-American subjects, several of which are on view in an exhibition at Frick Madison.

Dive into African history with engaging infographics from Afrographics, offering a great visual journey to understand the roots and evolution of African hair traditions.