Quilts by Black craftspeople need to be preserved — but funds have been pulled The federal government revoked $460,000 in federal funding to a Berkeley, Calif., museum housing historic African ...

This Housetop Quilt by Rita Mae Pettway (b. 1941) was made of cotton and polyesterin Gee’s Bend, Alabama, ca. 1990 "A Century of African-American Quilts" is on exhibit Jan. 30, 2016, through ...