The Un-Private Collection: Kara Walker and Ava DuVernay
Provocative artist Kara Walker will be in conversation with Ava DuVernay, filmmaker and winner of the 2012 Sundance Best Director Award. Two of the most celebrated artists working today, both…
by October Gallery
Provocative artist Kara Walker will be in conversation with Ava DuVernay, filmmaker and winner of the 2012 Sundance Best Director Award. Two of the most celebrated artists working today, both…
Deborah Willis is a curator, writer, artist and educator who is one of the nation’s leading historians of African American photography and culture. Willis is chair of the Department of…
By Lenore T. Adkins, Special to the AFRO An upcoming public forum aims to groom more Blacks, Latinos, women and other marginalized groups for careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics…
Syracuse University has suspended 15 members of the Theta Tau chapter over the weekend after they were recorded making homophobic, racist, sexist and anti-semitic remarks in videos published by The…
“Show me a happy homosexual, and I’ll show you a gay corpse,” a swanning Catholic with maxed-out credit cards and a snazzy Manhattan apartment sneers in “The Boys in the…
While some moms may cringe at the idea of talking about their most intimate sexual pleasures with their kids, Jada Pinkett Smith had no qualms about telling 17-year-old Willow about…
A perky face looks out from the pink-and-blue cover of the American translation of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman, originally published in 2016 in Japan, where its publisher says it…
Summer has arrived, which, for many Americans, means day camps for children, afternoons lounging by a pool, and weekend trips to the beach. But for many others, summer brings new…
The concept, which originated in Houston, celebrates the flavor of African, African-American and Caribbean cuisines. “I wanted to do something to really highlight the culinary community from the African diaspora,”…
Inspired by Steampunk design, Richard Wilks talks about his larger than life 3-point mobile contraption. Through the merging of transportation and art, he created a mobile art piece called “Evotrope.”…