By Kathy Chouteau | Richmond Standard The Richmond Art Center (RAC) has announced its lineup of three winter exhibitions, including Art of the African Diaspora, Connected Always and The Remembrance...
The Black woman whose cells have helped advance medical research will be honored in her hometown By Angela Johnson The city of Roanoke, Va., is honoring a...
By Anne Brice | Excerpted from the Berkeley News Eniola Fakile’s creations live in another world. Fakile is a photographer. A performance artist. A filmmaker. A...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Below you will find a list of documentaries, based on the roots of African American culture, compiled by Word in Black partner, The...
By McKenzie Jackson | California Black Media The “Stop the Hate. Spread the Love,” initiative spearheaded by California Black Media (CBM) and others, was introduced to...
By Ben Jealous Art can be a powerful tool for social change. Sometimes that threatens people in power. Right now, some of America’s greatest artists are...
By Clifford L. Williams San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora’s (MoAD) Afropolitan Ball, billed as a high energy celebration of Bay Area Black talent, will...
By Post Staff Jazz saxophonist Farrell ‘Pharoah’ Sanders, a pioneer of ‘spiritual’ jazz who lived in Oakland for a time before gaining renown in New York...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Holsinger collection of 600 photos of Blacks in the area will hang in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Barack Obama spoke of the people he and Biden had worked with and fondly recalled his time in the White House. “When people...
By Post Staff Oakland is featured in a powerful new film, “Bottled Spirits,” premiering at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival on Sept. 2. Three Black artists who...
By Godfrey Lee The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Galleries is presenting “David Johnson: In the Zone (1945-1965),” an exhibition that is being displayed through January...
By Bay City News The results are in: People in Marin County were ready to have fun at the fair after taking a two-year hiatus due...
FLORIDA COURIER — Dr. Bethune was the founder of what is now Bethune-Cookman University (B-CU) in Daytona Beach. She also was a philanthropist, civil rights activist...
By Tamara Shiloh It was the early summer of 1980. More than 100 artists converged on an abandoned four-story building at Seventh Avenue and 41st Street...
By Zack Haber Starting at noon on May 14, over 500 people rallied and marched in San Francisco’s Mission District to protest the killing of Palestinian...
THE BURTON WIRE — The first film in the series was “Michael Mwenso Honors George Floyd,” a powerful concert homage featuring some of today’s greatest Black...
By Randolph Belle A traveling exhibit that invokes the history of repression of Blacks in the United States arrived in Oakland for installation this week at...
Marin County Fair “So Happy Together!” returns June 30-July 4 Courtesy of Marin County 2022 Marin County Fair Poster depicting a variety of farm animals with...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I couldn't be more humbled or excited to be the new editor of Poetry. The 19-year-old version of me, thumbing through the magazine’s...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — On June 12, the community is invited out to an AfroNoon celebration at White Park in downtown Riverside at Market and 9th Street....
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The Poetry Foundation building reopened to the public on April 7 with a robust lineup of programming and events. Like all Foundation programs,...
NEW TRI-STATE DEFENDER — From 2008 through March 2020, WKNO featured different exhibits every month. McDaniel was used to booking artists out as far as two...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “I wanted to use this list as an opportunity to elevate some films that may have been undervalued or overlooked for a variety...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Terence Blanchard’s ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ is the first work by a Black composer to be presented at the Met. Based...
