UMass Amherst Provost Professor of Art History Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson is overseeing the exhibition of illustrated children’s books shedding light on slavery in the north of the continent by her ...

She demonstrates how the icon was transformed into poetry, literature, visual art, sculpture, performance, and film-and became a medium through which diasporic Africans have reasserted their common ...

Outside one of the oldest houses in Cambridge is a new art installation that is meant to evoke an untold history. “Massachusetts, Cambridge was a part of the slave trade,” said Pam Goncalves ...

A series of exhibitions exploring the theme of slavery runs at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the parliamentary act to abolish the transatlantic slave trade.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) now has on view a larger-than-life, vibrant depiction of Nat Turner’s slave rebellion by artist Christopher Myers.The ...

Those came from university benefactors who had made their money from the slave trade, ... The Bank of England said in August it was taking down art depicting former governors with links to slavery.

Both Charles Campbell and Camille Turner have been thinking about their ancestors. Jamaican-born visual artists working in Canada – he’s in Victoria; she is a Torontonian now living in L.A ...

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.

It did not own slaves, but got significant benefits; University and benefactors invested in the slave trade; Black scholars to be celebrated, supported in new schemes ...