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 ...

In the shadow of police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and in the midst of a global pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement caught a tidal wave of momentum in 2020. There were hashtags, ...

Crenshaw Dairy Mart fellows, from left: Oto-Abasi Attah, Autumn Breon, juice wood (photo by Star Montana, courtesy CDM) LOS ANGELES — At the end of last year, the Crenshaw Dairy Mart (CDM), a ...

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 ...

Bob Strong’s “What ended worldwide slavery?” (July 11) completely ignores the crucial role that people of color played in the abolition movement in Britain and the U.S. Black abolitionists such as ...