A film being shown Wednesday at the Mayborn tells the story of an overlooked Black cultural and artistic moment at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition that has shaped history.
Stepping onto the platform at Michigan Central Station was stepping into a new chapter. For Black families leaving the Jim Crow South, Detroit was more than a destination. It was a declaration. They ...
From torn pieces of paper, Nia Winslow constructs vibrant scenes that evoke togetherness and nostalgia in paper collages.
At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...
From Libya to Italy, Tunisia to France, the Canary Islands to mainland Europe, countless migrants lose their lives attempting ...
During the Great Migration, Black Americans seeking a better life and more opportunity left Jim Crow south, with many landing ...
The story of Northwest Indiana’s steel industry is deeply tied to the Great Migration when thousands of Black Americans moved north seeking jobs, dignity and opportunity. They settled in cities ...
Billy Jackson speaks with the Amsterdam News about his film “We Are Universal,” currently screening at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
she has taken more than one thousand young Black students on a tour of Historically Black Colleges and Universities or HBCU's. Clark found purpose in encouraging young people to see education as ...
Cole’s work was inspired by French humanist photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “The People of Moscow.” These were photographs of ordinary people doing ordinary things in ordinary environments. Cole ...
This contrasts with 4% owned by Black people. AfriForum, a right-wing lobby group, and the mainly white Solidarity Movement ... of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news ...