Jul 7, 2025 | Arts + Culture
And we’re back, Philly. The holiday weekend is set to close with more sun and high temps near 90. Despite federal cuts and executive orders taking aim at diversity and inclusion efforts, Philadelphia’s art organizations continue to center the stories of Black...
Jun 16, 2025 | Arts + Culture, History, Music
OperaCréole will present “Songs of Victory”, a concert celebrating Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane”, the oldest known opera by a Black American. The event will feature performances by Lindsey Reynolds, Givonna Joseph, and others. More From NPR
Jun 2, 2025 | Arts + Culture, Books, Leadership, Media
One of Amarie Gipson’s many gifts is an unyielding desire to ask questions. Having worked at institutions like The Contemporary Austin, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, Gipson has cultivated a practice of examining structures and pushing...
Apr 14, 2025 | Arts + Culture, Women
At Black Girls in Art Spaces’ February meet-up, a group of roughly 50 women mingled in a nook of the Dallas Museum of Art. The building teemed with visitors, who dropped in and out of activities commemorating the start of Black History Month. Here on the first floor,...
Apr 7, 2025 | Arts + Culture, Events
Spring is often a season of rebirth—but in museums across the globe, it’s also becoming a season of reckoning, remembrance, and radiant creative expression. This year’s slate of exhibitions centering Black artists, thinkers, and histories is both expansive and...
Mar 24, 2025 | Arts + Culture
“Ignorance allows for racism, but racism requires ignorance. It requires that we don’t know the facts,” says Sarah Lewis, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and founder of the Vision & Justice...
