A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the ...

Carole Shelton presented the program "Portraits of African American Women in Missouri" on Feb. 6 during an evening hosted by ...

Columbus sent Smyre to the Capitol back in 1974 where he quickly caught the eye of longtime House Speaker Tom Murphy, who took him under his wing. His portrait now hangs near Murphy’s. Smyre became ...

The lives and lived experience of two women who won their independence from enslavement, and bore witness to history, were shared Feb. 6 at the Phelps County Courthouse.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

And until now, their faces were recognizable only in grainy black-and-white photographs. Davis based all but one of the portraits on those historic images. For that one, he used an image of the ...

Frustrated with the absence of positive representations of Black people in art, John Wilson responded by providing images of Black dignity while addressing the painful realities of racial prejudice.

The Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum in New Smyrna Beach is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the city's historically Black Westside community.