Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...

A 1920s photo of two Black men embracing, part of a collection on homosexual African American men, was altered by social media users in Greece to falsely claim it depicted Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the ...

A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

click image for close-up The portrait of Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black man and Revolutionary War veteran who lived in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, hangs in the historical room of the town library.

In the last act of his life, my father might be teaching me one final lesson: how an elderly black man is supposed to grieve. I call this class A Portrait Of Grief As An Elderly Black Man.

was simultaneously one of the most hated and most revered men in the colonies. In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, Virginia patriot Richard Henry Lee derisively dubbed him the "African Hero" for his ...

A striking early portrait by Gustav Klimt depicting Ghanaian Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona may soon find a home in a ...

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 ...

In his accompanying essay, titled “Portrait of the Modern Dandy,” Mr ... a “beautifully anarchic moment,” especially for Black men. That helps “open up possibilities of expression ...