Raymond Saunders, known for his mixed-media assemblage paintings that layer fragments of printed matters with expressionistic ...

When it was unveiled in 1864, John Rogers’ “The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp,” was celebrated for its anti-slavery ...

Sprinters Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (third from right) gives the Black Power Salute at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Carlos will receive the American Visionary Art Museum's Grand ...

The HBO documentary “Fists of Freedom: The Story of the ’68 Olympic Games” (1999) and the BBC doc “Black Power Salute” (2008) cover the event.

It all started at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. That’s when U.S. track and field Olympian John Carlos won the bronze medal in the 200-meter race.

The Black Power salute was a gesture famously performed by 200-meter American medalists John Carlos and Tommie Smith on the victory stand at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968 to protest ...