Every strike on the drumhead sends ripples through time as it calls communities together, guiding dancers in sacred rituals, marking moments of transition, and igniting the soul of a gathering. To ...

The family, staring at portraits displayed on each of the caskets, was overcome with disbelief, shock and tears. Leaders, friends and residents gathered to pay their last respects.

CSO and The Joffrey Ballet: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 10-11, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 13, at the Chicago Symphony ...

Goliath’s artworks – one of the highlights at last year’s Venice Biennale – seek to reframe acts of mourning and of ...

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

William Gosch of North Tonawanda is a 101-year-old World War II combat veteran, and a subject of a California artist's project that combines history and art.

An opening reception and historic presentation on the exhibit Black Pearl will be held from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, at the ...

34.The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in US history, resulting in the deaths of over ...

Known as the “soul of the Morgan,” Belle da Costa Greene established the Morgan Library & Museum’s collection and lived as a “passing” Black woman in the early 20th century.

Sonja Anderson is a writer and reporter based in Chicago. Found at a beach in northern Poland, the nearly ten-inch-long artifact could be up to 2,500 years old. It had been lodged inside a lump of ...

He uploaded it to social media to announce his location and precarious situation but also as an act of protest — ...

This week, the Mattatuck Museum is exhibiting the art of Elizabeth Catlett, the first person, first woman and first ...