Art & Photograpy

Aaron Douglas, (May 26, 1899—February 2, 1979) was an African American painter and graphic artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Douglas’ distinctive style of geometric...

Tom Feelings (May 19, 1933 – August 25, 2003) was a well-known artist, cartoonist, children's book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist. From the dawn of the U.S. civil rights era, when he came of age a...

Laura Wheeler was an African-American artist and educator, best known for her paintings of prominent African Americans including W.E.B. Du Bois and Marian Anderson. A member of the NAACP, Wheeler also contribut...

"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." ~President Obama "Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself." ~Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volum...

Moneta Sleet Jr. was the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, best remembered for his photograph of Coretta Scott King and her daughter at the funeral of the Martin Luther King Jr. Sleet is the first African...

Oliver Wendell Harrington was a political cartoonist and originator of Dark Laughter and Jive Gray comic strips and has been called the "greatest" African American cartoonist. Harrington was born in Valhall...

Twenty-three artists were commissioned by Anheuser-Busch over a 25-year span, to create works for the Legend of the Crown collection. Each painting depicts an African leader and celebrates his or her impact on ...

Basil Barrington Watson is Jamaica's master painter. In 2000 he was awarded a Gold Musgrave Medal by the Institute of Jamaica. Barrington Watson was born on 9 January 1931, in Hanover, Jamaica. He originally...

Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for his raw gestural style of painting with graffiti-like images and scrawled text, was the African American artist who emerged from the "Punk" scene in New York and crossed over to ...

Carl Owens is one of the great African-American artists of Detroit. He is best known as an illustrator, portrait artist and fine arts painter. One of his best known works is a mural of African-American history ...