by October Gallery
A new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says that, 53 years after the implementation of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), people of color are still being locked…
Denisse Ariana Perez and her aunt, an Afro-Caribbean woman who is a professor in social education, embarked on a journey to visit various Afro-communities in South America, specifically countries that…
Nine red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave may be the earliest known drawing made by Homo sapiens, archaeologists reported on Wednesday. The artifact, which…
The building, built in 1901, housed many illustrious characters of the Harlem renaissance, the art and literary movement which reshaped the neighbourhood and radically transformed African American culture in the…
Boston, MA — According to a 2017 report, by the Prison Policy Initiative, there are over 219,000 incarcerated women in the United States. 1:5 incarcerated people are locked up are…
On a rainy summer afternoon, Myrtis Bedolla, a highly respected gallerist and art dealer, sits in her second-floor office overlooking North Charles Street to talk about the shifts she’s witnessed…
The revolution done signed my name,” they moaned, invoking the names of the ancestors whose strength has willed them to persevere: Harriet Tubman. Shirley Chisholm. Aretha Franklin. Two were like…
Facebook0 Twitter0 Mail Charles M. Blow, The New York Times Former President Barack Obama will deliver a speech that will preview his 2018 midterm election message and provide his most…
Fifty years ago this week, Arthur Ashe shocked the tennis world by winning the men’s singles at the first US Open. No one had expected a fifth-seeded, 25-year-old amateur on…
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on August 25, 2017, devastating Houston and its surrounding areas. More than a year later, with much of the state recovered, lower-income earning Houstonians…