The Art of Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban...
Author : Uchenna Edeh
Jacob Lawrence: Celebrated painter of the African-American experience
Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important artists of the 20th century, widely renowned for his modernist depictions of everyday life as well as...
Interview with Dr. David Imhotep: The First Americans Were Africans
“We were here at least 56,000 years ago; Africans came over. The Mongolians don’t come until 2,600 BC and they shared their blood with the...
Lewis Latimer: Prolific African American Inventor
Lewis H. Latimer is considered one of the most important Black inventors of all time, not only for the sheer number of inventions created and...
Romare Bearden: Renowned African American Collage Artist
Romare Howard Bearden (September 2, 1911- March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer renowned primarily for his collages. In subject matter, Bearden’s brightly-colored...
Eldridge Cleaver: His soul on Ice
Eldridge Cleaver was one of the best-known and most recognizable symbols of African-American rebellion in the 1960s as a leader of the Black Panther Party....
Fred Hampton: “I Am a Revolutionary… I Am the People.”
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you cannot kill a revolution. You can jail a liberation fighter, but you cannot jail liberation.” ~ Fred Hampton...
The March on Washington: Historic Rally for Civil Rights
On August 28, 1963, over 250,000 demonstrators gathered in Washington, D.C., for the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This monumental event placed...
The Art of Hale Woodruff
Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an African-American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints. His three-panel work, Amistad...
Asa Hilliard, III: The Pan-Africanist educator
“To know Dr. Hilliard was in some respects to know Africa.” Asa Hilliard, III was a world renowned Pan-Africanist educator who worked on indigenous ancient...