You can now view the “Portrait of Leana and the Lambeth Children” in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)’s American art ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...

As the founder of Woman’s Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented the work of many accomplished ...

As a curator for the Smithsonian's Center for African-American History ... daguerreotypes of black men and women, some of them in their coffins; wedding portraits by James VanDerZee, now famous ...

In 2016, she submitted one of her paintings, a portrait called Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), featuring an elegant African-American woman holding ... of black identity,” the gallery ...

According to the CDC, Black women are more than three times more likely to die during childbirth compared to white women. NBC ...

Record numbers of Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native women are serving in state legislatures this year, but remain ...

Each coin in the American Women Quarters Program features a common obverse (heads) design depicting a portrait of George Washington. This design was originally composed and sculpted by Laura ...

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