BLACK ENTERPRISE spotlights 19 Black women visual artists to honor and recognize for International Black Women's History ...

Discover 13 influential books by Black women authors that explore identity, resilience, and justice through powerful ...

After earning a medical degree in 1864, Rebecca Lee Crumpler died in obscurity and was buried without a headstone ...

NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits.

The "Four Ways of Being" portraits invite museum visitors to explore the complex ways our histories shape our understanding.

Sherald’s oeuvre so far is singular in its advancement of the American Realist tradition of artists such as Edward Hopper, ...

The world said goodbye last month to someone who made history as the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress.

spacesuit in this stark black and white portrait by photographer Josh Valcarcel. In 1983, Anna Fisher put on a spacesuit for what is now an iconic photo of one of the first U.S. women to fly into ...

The National Park Service edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' latest play, starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young, observes a powerful Black family during ... Jackson), a God-fearing woman and former lawyer whose sugary ...

but other women with whom he had more painful relationships were imagined as malevolent femme fatales. Model with a Green Scarf (Sultan Abdul Karim) (1916) Munch made portraits of many of the men ...