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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — 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 ...

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 ...

Britain’s University of Cambridge said on Thursday it had benefited from the proceeds of slavery over its history, and promised to expand scholarships for Black students and fund more research ...

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 ...

This hundred years—from approximately 1725 to 1825—is also the high-water mark of the slave trade, as Europeans send more than 7.2 million people to forced labor, disease, and death in the New ...

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 ...