Mechanics Hall in Worcester has unveiled three newly commissioned portraits, the first in the concert hall’s 167-year history to feature Black Americans. Activists Frederick Douglass, Sojourner ...

Back in 1837, Bélizaire was the Black or mixed-race domestic servant of the Freys, a wealthy, White, French Quarter family. The enslaved 15-year-old was apparently such an important part of ...

Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for half million dollars ...

The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over 100 years, the image of an enslaved youth was erased. This is his story.

Through a miscommunication about wearing a red jacket, Richard Wilson knew it was “God’s intention” for him to paint Harold Alonza Black, Mary Blackwell Diallo and Kerry Rushin Miller. Newly ...

I have a place here, the frame signals.I look different. And I belong. Wiley's young Black man is turned out in hip 21st century fashion. He wears blue and orange shorts and a psychedelic orange t ...

In the summer of 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife, Vanessa, had just moved to Santa Ana, California. Outside the couple’s fourth-floor apartment, an unkempt homeless man was often yelling on ...

Artist Kehinde Wiley, known for his paintings of African-Americans and reinterpretations of classic artworks, has been chosen by former President Barack Obama to paint his official portrait for ...

David Bernhard, a circuit court judge, wrote in his decision that the display of portraits of white judges “is based on a non-racial principle, yet yields a racial result.” By Derrick Bryson ...