by October Gallery
After Taylor Dumpson was elected student body president at American University, she was trolled and racially harassed by several white supremacists. Dumpson who is African-American, fought back, suing one of…
Perhaps you first heard about Jean-Michel Basquiat earlier in 2017 when his painting, Untitled (1982), sold for a record $110.5 million, making his art the most expensive American painting of…
Dr. Gladys West, a mathematician and one of the so-called “Hidden Figures” who was lesser known for her contributions to inventing GPS, has been inducted into the Air Force Space…
Tytianna Smith is a graduating senior from Lafayette High School in Lafayette, Alabama. She applied to 50 Schools and was accepted into all but one, her top choice. But as…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Candice Crutchfield , Blavity African Heritage Dancers dance to the African Heritage Drummers during a Kwanzaa celebration at the Lincoln Theater in Washington, D.C. Kwanzaa is a…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Michael M. Butler, Blavity Photo: Courtesy Next Management. Featured Image Viral images from Anok Yai’s time at a Howard University’s homecoming celebration have vaulted her from Instagram…
Although our correspondent gathered that Oluwole passed on in the early hours of Sunday in her residence at Ibafo, Ogun State, the detail of her death was scanty as of…
As a socially conscious teenager, Dawoud Bey was intrigued by the controversy over the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 1969 exhibition, “Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968.”…
According to an early 1968 Harris Poll, the man whose half-century of martyrdom we celebrate this week died with a public disapproval rating of nearly 75 percent, a figure shocking…
MONTCLAIR, New Jersey — “Virginia’s Lynch Mob” (1998), the centerpiece of Kara Walker: Virginia’s Lynch Mob and Other Works, organized by guest curator Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw at the Montclair Art…