by October Gallery
In his youth, saxophonist Wayne Shorter used to travel with his trumpeter brother, Alan, carrying instrument cases labelled Mr Weird and Mr Strange. Even then, the clues to his idiosyncratic…
Amazon announced on Tuesday that, starting November 1, it will increase minimum pay for all full-time, part-time, temporary, and seasonal workers to $15 an hour. The company says this will…
The African American Film Critics Association has teamed up with Turner Classic Movies to shine a spotlight on classic black films and the voices that uplift them. This partnership started…
Maryland-based artist Tawny Chatmon combines traditional portraiture with digital collage, layering elements of antique patterns, vintage botanicals, and wildlife illustrations onto images of her children and other relatives. Once printed,…
In 2016, Harris Perry made headlines due to her particularly ugly departure from her hit show on MSNBC. Now, she’s opening up about the traumatic event that occurred to her…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail CNN, CNN Dooky Chase’s gave African Americans a taste of the fine dining they were barred from, and now over fifty years later people from all over…
MERIDEN, Conn. — Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year turned congressional candidate, struggled with the publicity around her personal life story — growing up in a housing…
We are only a few weeks away from the midterm elections. It’s important that you know who is on the ballot so you can make informed decisions. Likewise, it’s important…
Josh T. Franco, national collector for Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, explains a copyright created by Mexican American artists to safeguard their work and reaffirm their identity as part of…
Charlotte Van Dercook, Head of Sotheby’s Contemporary Curated auctions in New York, remarked: “We are thrilled with the results from today’s auction, which saw our highest total since we began…