Robert Smalls​ escaped slavery in Charleston by commandeering a Confederate ship and became a top Union naval officer and South Carolina lawmaker.

Vinnie Bagwell is one of the most sought after contemporary American sculptors, who has previously created sculptures honoring Ella Fitzgerald and Harriet Tubman.

Wikimedia Commons/National Park Service Maggie L. Walker When Maggie Walker opened St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1903, she ...

After eight months of development, Mayor Cherelle Parker and officials from Creative Philadelphia announced the winning ...

A statue of Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's law school, is ...

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker unveiled the designs for the statue of Sadie T.M. Alexander, the first Black woman to ...

Visitors photographed a portrait of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, painted by the artist Robert McCurdy, near a portrait of ...

R enowned artist Amy Sherald has canceled her upcoming solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait ...

Since President Donald Trump has taken office, elite Americans and academics are leaving the country. A quarter of those who responded to a recent poll said they would like to move outside the country ...

Jamaican-born artist Melissa Koby created the official 2025 US Open theme art, celebrating tennis legend Althea Gibson’s ...

Michelle Obama’s portrait painter Amy Sherald cancels show amid Trump administration’s push against leftist ideology.

It might be the most predictable bellwether of the dark cultural moment we’re in. Amy Sherald, the celebrated American painter made famous by her 2018 portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama, ...