The artist who painted former President Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait hailed the former first couple’s choice of black artists for both paintings, calling it a signal that it was now ...

George Osodi “Untitled” (2008) from the series Devil’s Dexterity, chromogenic print (image courtesy the artist and Z Photographic, ltd., photo by the author for Hyperallergic) For me, The Expanded ...

Five years ago, Dr. Steven Dubin, a sociologist at Columbia, was on a research trip in South Africa when a friend suggested that he should take a look at a box full of photo negatives that she had in ...

In the 1880s, just a few decades after the first photographs were taken in Africa, African and American photographers traveled the continent catering to elites. “There were African photographers who ...

At left, a photograph by Thomas E. Askew of women sitting on the steps of Atlanta University, from an album prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois (c.1899, via Library of Congress); at right, Amy Sherald’s ...

The portrait was commissioned to celebrate Black British figures from history. LONDON -- A new portrait of Queen Victoria’s African goddaughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, has been unveiled at the 19th ...

Thandiwe Muriu was 14 years old when she found photography. Her father taught her to use his Nikon digital camera, and every day after school she would rush home, finish her homework and then train ...

The first African-American painter commissioned for a presidential portrait works out of his home studio in Silver Spring. Here’s what brought him there—and why he’s never left. While growing up in an ...

On a faintly misty morning in South Africa’s Kamiesberg mountain region, 79-year-old goatherd Hettie (Hettie Farmer) watches ...

Today Deutsche Welle launched a story series for young Africans. The project, sponsored by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, will present 25 outstanding personalities of African history as a web comic and ...