In the 1980s, Kansas City Chiefs legend Christian Okoye paved the way for young Africans to play American Football in the ...

Former director Stephanie Stebich is now a senior adviser at the Smithsonian after employees described a tumultuous tenure at ...

The City of Joburg is destroying Africa’s most valuable art collection, once worth hundreds of millions of rands. This is ...

The Delaware Art Museum returns visitors to the 1920s during “Jazz Age Illustration,” the first major exhibition of popular ...

By the 2000s, Vincent Sithole created a basket studded with South African birds. The first major exhibition of telephone wire art in any North American museum, "Weaving Meanings," features a ...

Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor.

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

In 1975, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes laid down a melodic mandate that applies to our times: “Wake up, everybody / No more ...

A whirlwind of color and art at the opening of this year’s Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art in the Senegalese ...

Hammonds House Museum, one of the earliest free-standing museums dedicated solely to the art of African-American and ...

I get chills recalling the sheer power of art that I felt in this room at the National Portrait Gallery, as if the genius loci of Washington, D.C. was standing next to me like a ghost.

Over the last decade, Afrobeats has become a global phenomenon, bringing African music into the Western mainstream. There’s ...