Tag:Black People

Education

At Black Colleges, a Stubborn Gender Enrollment Gap Keeps Growing

Before stepping foot on Howard University’s campus, Skylar Wilson knew she would see more women there than men. But just how many more...

Joseph Brown - March 30, 2025

Life Style

Fred Eversley, Sculptor of Otherworldly Discs, Is Dead at 83

Fred Eversley, a sculptor who used a technique dating back to Isaac Newton to make otherworldly discs of tinted resin, died on March...

Joseph Brown - March 25, 2025

Life Style

Tyler Mitchell Captures ‘the Modern Dandy’ in a New Photo Essay for the Met

Last year, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art invited a young photographer to shoot its highly anticipated spring 2025 fashion exhibition, the museum...

Joseph Brown - March 14, 2025

Education

L. Clifford Davis, Who Fought to Desegregate Texas Schools, Dies at 100

L. Clifford Davis, a civil rights lawyer who led efforts to desegregate high schools in Texas, sometimes in the face of mob violence,...

Joseph Brown - March 6, 2025

Education

A Black Studies Curriculum Is (Defiantly) Rolling Out in New York City

Late last fall at the Hugo Newman School in Harlem, two social studies teachers handed out pages of hip-hop lyrics to their seventh...

Joseph Brown - March 3, 2025

Life Style

Why Did It Take a Fire for the World to Learn of Altadena’s Black Arts Legacy?

Saar, whom White would eventually recruit to teach at Otis, grew up on the edge of Altadena in the 1930s and ’40s. Her...

Joseph Brown - February 21, 2025

Life Style

Visionary Artworks Plumb the Mysteries of Creativity

Scott Kerr, a fifth-generation art dealer in St. Louis, didn’t know what to expect last year as he was crossing the Mississippi River...

Joseph Brown - February 15, 2025

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100 Years of How Black Painters See Themselves

The display at Bozar groups paintings according to six loose themes — “The Everyday,” “Repose,” “Triumph and Emancipation,” “Sensuality,” “Spirituality” and “Joy and...

Joseph Brown - February 10, 2025

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