All-Black Team of Climbers Makes History After Reaching the Top of Mount Everest
Nationwide — A team of 7 Black climbers has made history as the first all-Black expedition to make it to the top of Mount Everest, which is the Earth’s highest…
Black Anti-Racist Advocate Predicts a Racial Civil War in America in 2024
Nationwide — Meet Wendy Shaia, an activist, social worker, author, and educator from Baltimore, Maryland, who predicts in her new Black dystopian fantasy novel that in the year 2024 there…
Black Woman, Owner of 14 Healthcare Franchise Locations, Nominated as Forbes Next 1000 Honoree
Nationwide — Meet Lativah Greene, the founder and CEO of Compassionate Helpers, one of the fastest-growing Black-owned healthcare franchises in the country. A serial entrepreneur from Detroit, Michigan, Lativah was…
Francia Márquez Makes History as Colombia’s First Ever Black Vice President
This Former Housekeeper Just Become the First Black Vice President of Colombia History has been made in the South American country of Colombia as 40-year-old Francia Márquez has been elected…
One Million Moms Partner With Black-Owned Bodycam App to Protect Their Kids From Police Misconduct
Nationwide — ANJEL Tech, a Black-owned cloud-based application that turns any smartphone into your own personal body cam, has announced a historic partnership with 1 Million Madly Motivated Moms (1M4).…
Exhibition at New York's Drawing Center explores the ‘freedom to ornament’
A unique example of a transitional-phase Navajo weaving in the "Germantown" tradition, with American flag panels and eye-dazzlers (1868-1910) by an unknown artist. Courtesy The Drawing Center.Ornamentation can be a…
An expert's guide to Raphael: five must-read books on the Italian Old Master
Raphael's Self Portrait (around 1506) © Gallerie degli UffiziThe celebrations marking 500 years since the death of Raphael in 1520, aged just 37, were somewhat derailed by the pandemic. But…
The romantic story behind a Russian photographer's version of Klimt's Kiss painting, restaged for Ukraine
Andrey Kezzyn's The Kiss (2022). For the past decade, the Russian artist Andrey Kezzyn has been creating photographs which he describes as "postmodern copies of Klimt". The first idea for…
Star-studded MoMA gala—attended by Martin Scorsese, George Lucas and Wolfgang Tillmans—becomes unlikely space for institutional critique
MoMA director Glenn Lowry with curator Roxana Marcocci, artist Wolfgang Tillmans and Metropolitan Museum director Max Hollein. Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Museum of Modern Art )Put Wolfgang Tillmans…