an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait. Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established ...

Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter known for his distinctive portraits. His subjects are often young black men and women, rendered in a Photorealist style against densely ...

a biracial man, had just become President of The United States. Pickens believed the President’s story had significant ties to the interracial history of his own family. He contacted the museum, and ...

A portrait of Robert ... died in 1915 as a free man. Rewriting South Carolina's Constitution during the Reconstruction Era saw him help secure rights for African Americans, later reversed by ...

South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ...

With African American voting ... through a collective portrait that not only offers a portrait of him, but also honors those who helped him become the man known for holding a mirror up to America ...

Davis looks to highlight the history and spirit of Black performance through a collection of portraits analyzing and celebrating the rich, complex and often tragic development of African American ...