Thousands of sculpted heads - captive African men, women, and children - meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred gathering of ...

Black art is largely absent from the world's largest museums. Now, African American artists and curators are working to change that. An 82-year-old Jewish woman has died from injuries suffered in ...

Artists from the US and across Africa interpret Dakar exhibition's theme, tied to slavery's past and future repercussions, in various ways A whirlwind of colour and art at the opening of this year ...

The rebellion, which took place in 1839, was one of the only times when African slaves were returned back to their home country, Sierra Leone, rather than being displaced in the Americas.

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. Traditions EndurePainted in the ...

This is not just a celebration of how far we've come in 160 years, but also showing that there's still a lot of work that ...

The Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, or Dak’Art, has opened in the Senegalese capital.

More than 100 Pan-African artists, ranging from 4 to 93 years old, came together for the Juneteenth Art Expo at The Drawing ...

Juneteenth was celebrated with dancing and a history lesson at the Center for African American History, Art, and Culture on ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

The seven African-American artists’ works examine the past, present and future repercussions of slavery. Traditional boubous, wide-sleeved robes worn across West Africa, mixed with black suits ...