James Van Der Zee: The Photographer of Black Possibility
Decades before “representation” became a cultural keyword, Van Der Zee built a visual language of success, faith, and mourning that still instructs how we read the Harlem Renai
Romare Bearden: Harlem, In Panels
“The Block” wasn’t just a masterpiece. It was a theory of community—how a city holds a people, and how an artist can make that holding visible.
Edmonia Lewis: The Sculptor the Century Misplaced
Edmonia Lewis crossed borders to make work the nation wasn’t ready to see, then slipped into a long, telling silence.
The Light Over the Table Never Changes. Everything Else Does.
In “The Kitchen Table Series,” Carrie Mae Weems turns one room into a lifetime, and one woman’s interior world into a public record.
Who Owns An Enslaved Voice
Dave the Potter’s signed jars force museums to confront authorship, inheritance, and restitution.
The Check Is Coming. The Damage Already Cashed
Inside Michigan’s Flint water settlement—why it took years to reach families, how fees and liens reshape “justice,” and what a majority-Black city is being asked to accept
When Trane Lowered the Volume
The making of “John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman,” the record that taught a generation to hear restraint as power.
Where Black Art Lives, Again
The Studio Museum returns to Harlem with a new building, an expanded vision, and a renewed commitment to the community that has always shaped it.
Who Gets to See Themselves in a Holiday Classic?
Black Broadway Tulsa’s all-Black cast premiere asks that question—without changing a single line of the script.
Black-Owned Bakeries: Where The Sweet Things Are
Across six Black-owned bakeries—in Chicago, Dallas, Harlem, Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Prince George’s County, Maryland—these businesses sell pleasure, but they run on discip