LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Economic opportunities for Lafayette’s African American women developed slowly in the 20th century. Women lacked access to educational or vocational training.

UC Berkeley art museum to exhibit 20th century African American quilts Opening June 8, ‘Routed West’ expands on previous display of Black diaspora works from Second Great Migration period ...

By the mid-20th century, the Nordic countries enjoyed a reputation as not only havens from the rampant racism of the U.S. but also centers of dynamic artistic production. They soon became ...

Two African-American Army sergeants, Cornelius H. Charlton and William Thompson, earned the Medal of Honor. The 1960s marked a major transformation for African-American citizens in the United States.

Dexter Gordon and Slide Hampton’s jazz album “A Day in Copenhagen”—piped into the galleries—is the principal soundtrack for “Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century,” at ...

African American leaders fought for integration rather than the development of separate Black institutions in the 19th century. The city's first permanent African American newspaper, the CLEVELAND ...

It was the first Black union to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor. Many scholars cite the important role that the Pullman porters played in the early 20th century.

The exhibit “Black California Dreamin’: Claiming Space at America’s Leisure Frontier” at the California African American Museum includes photos of early 20th century African Americans ...

African Americans in the 20th Century” was on view at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle through July 21 and will move to Chazen Museum of Art from August 10 through December 10.

Two recent books by Yale faculty members shine a spotlight on a neglected stage of African American theater history. “Resistance, Parody, and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, ...

“There is a lot of demand for 20th-century African art from an African audience — in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and parts of north Africa,” Adeyinka says. “Collecting on the [African ...

African Americans in the 20th Century Scandinavia House, through March 8 Mr. Esplund, the author of “The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art” (Hachette), writes about art ...