The quilts, bundled back into acid-free paper and boxes after the viewing, are among 100 from 80 artists soon to be included in “Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in ...

The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens ... She gave in to the family legacy and picked up the sewing needle. Ideas for patterns “would just flow through me, sometimes in ...

Jahnavi Inniss is an award-winning graphic designer and craft educator whose work focusses on telling untold stories in Black British history. She studied BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Design at ...

They were partners in life and art who changed fashion and music for ever. The bitterness of their rupture never faded ...

I will admit that I took quilts for granted in my younger days. Quilts that my family had painstakingly crafted I saw as just a blanket — perfect for making ...

Even after losing more than $260,000 in federal support for its latest exhibition, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive isn’t backing down. “We will persist. We will continue,” BAMPFA ...

The Charles E. Brown African American Cultural Center is undergoing transition, and one of the changes will include dropping ‘African American’ from the name. In the future, the center ...

Why are we asking that about African American history?” Utsey called the veto part of a broader pattern, one he sees nationally of rolling back efforts to include marginalized voices in ...

More than 100 works by 80 quilters, many of whom emigrated to the East Bay from the American South in the 1900s, are on exhibit in Berkeley starting June 8.

Denver Public Library's interim director apologizes after removal of replica of prop desk 02:53 A controversy has been brewing at Denver's Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library after ...

ELSMERE, Ky. — Overgrown weeds, uneven ground and headstones covered by bushes and trees is putting one historic African American cemetery in disarray. “These are all over; you could break ...

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century. On Saturday ...