Testamentary space -- Visual culture and abolition -- Envisioning a future for slavery: Agostino Brunias and the politics of reproduction -- Unmasking 'simple truth': John Gabriel Stedman in Suriname ...
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of ...
Courtesy of Lanscine Janneh/BFA. Image treatment by Ashley Peña for W. Curator Nicole Fleetwood grew up in the late ’80s and early ’90s in a working-class, post-industrial town called Hamilton, Ohio.
When the pandemic arrived in 2020, Roberto Visani didn’t just hole up with a new puppy or sourdough starter. He got to work on an art project that would span 19th-century history and 21st-century ...
In his triptych, Ellapsium: master & Helm (2016), Jared Owens, a formerly incarcerated artist based in New York, superimposes the 1788 diagram of the Brookes slave ship — what art historian Cheryl ...
February is Black History Month, a national recognition of the crucial existence of Black communities in our country's tarnished history. If you're not already educating yourself about Black ...
The National Library of Seychelles this morning hosted the first official commemoration of Abolition of Slavery Day, led by President Dr. Patrick Herminie, bringing together history, culture and ...
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