Filmmaker RaMell Ross may be a practitioner and admirer of visual art, but in cinema, he strives for the effect of poetry.

Artist David Hammons is restaging a storied installation that he first presented in New York more than 20 years ago.

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

Charles Bess was a busboy when four Black college students defied the segregated lunch counter. This documentary shares his experience.

In a dark corner of the room, out of nowhere, my friend pulls me close and kisses me. Our underwear drops to the floor and our hands wander across each others’ bodies for the first time before we ...

James Baldwin's wardrobe was a form of code-switching, a sartorial dialect he adapted to navigate different worlds.

It's still wild to me that Damon Wayans Jr. literally had to leave New Girl because he was already committed to starring in ...

Carlton Mackey, like much of the country’s Black population, was overwhelmed with media images of death, anger and unrest in the wake of Michael Brown’s killing.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An 86-year-old Kansas City man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the ...

Pam Grier is the defining actor of Blaxploitation, drawing endless power from a deeply complex genre and changing action ...