Walter Robinson, Exuberant Art-World Participant and Observer, Dies at 74
A painter who took his subjects from pop culture, he was also the founding editor of Artnet.com and chronicled the rise of ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
These Seven Stunning Towers Memorialize Lost Black Lives With Mirrors, Light and Ethiopian Cross Designs
At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...
St. Valentine is not just patron saint of lovers, but also epilepsy, plague and beekeepers?
As couples across the world prepared for Valentine's Day in February 2025, a rumor cropped up on social media that St.
America Magazine2d
Catholic kitsch: Why simple religious art is actually great
From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...
Scroll14d
Remembering the lost art of calligraphy in Kashmir from the 7th century to the late 19th century
He surpassed his master maulana Abdul-Aziz…, art critics consider him equal to Mulla Mir Ali” Six years after the death of Akbar, Jahangir rewarded Muhammad Hussain Kashmiri with an elephant ...
Milwaukee Independent15d
Tulsa Massacre: DOJ report acknowledges violence against Greenwood’s Black community a century late
Although official records at the time drastically downplayed the severity of the violence, initially calling the event a mere “race riot,” many modern historians estimate that the death ... Black ...
LAist15d
In Altadena, where many Black families became homeowners, displaced residents grapple with grief and uncertainty
It’s been a sanctuary for Black residents in particular: according to census data, about 75% of African Americans living there own their homes — close to double the national rate. So when the ...
Florida Today16d
Month-long Black Box Blackout celebrates artistic and cultural diversity
Concerts, a gourmet dinner, theatrical performances and art events: Black Box Blackout has them all. A month-long labor of love from local jazz singer Kristen Warren, Black Box Blackout keeps the ...
The Jordan Times18d
Mamluk-Era burial discovery in Black Desert: Delving into 14th-Century Rituals and Practices
AMMAN — The researchers who worked in the Black Desert found poorly preserved skeletal remains ... dated and indicated that the adult person was interred somewhere in the 14th century AD, during the ...
Townhall20d
An American Black Man's Interpretation of the 14th Amendment
And so, as an American Black man, now that we have established that fact, I seek to provide my common sense interpretation of the 14th Amendment. Needless to say, it has once again become the ...
The Independent21d
Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified.
President Donald Trump signed an order attempting to end birthright citizenship, guaranteed in the 14th Amendment and championed for decades in the 19th century by Black Americans (AP ...