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President Donald Trump becoming chair of the Kennedy Center was Shonda Rhimes’ cue to resign from the art center's board.
Vanessa Williams revealed that Johnny Carson made a “prejudiced” joke about her Miss America pageant win in 1984.
Solange continues to leave her mark in the art world with new performance “In Service to Whom" at the Art…
Cort Theatre on Broadway has been renamed after James Earl Jones, the second theater on the Great White Way named…
The Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," starring Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke, finds a theater home, announces…
Broadway’s chock full of Black plays and actors, but Covid keeps audiences and casts out of theatres
Multiple Black artists were nominated in every single Tony Award performance category. But COVID-19 sickened actors and starved box offices.
Ford Foundation head Darren Walker was named commander of France's Order of Arts and Letters in New York this week.
The orchestra will perform the better-known work from Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges in Detroit.
One of the country's oldest and most prestigious literary magazines, Poetry magazine, names Adrian Matejka its first black editor.
Iconic poet Sonia Sanchez was awarded the $80K Jackson Poetry Prize, honoring her seven-decade career in the arts.
The high-end retailer Saks comes under fire on social media for hawking a small, brass Afro pick online as an…
Nikon partners with a Black woman's photography group to donate $50,000 to support then in education and advocacy efforts.
LaTanya Richardson and Samuel L. Jackson are donating $5 million toward the renovation of the Spelman’s arts building.
One of the pieces of artwork known as the Benin bronzes will be returned to Nigeria after being stolen years…
The President of the Republic of Ghana plans to construct a state-of-the-art museum complex honoring civil rights pioneer Dr. W.E.B…
Magic City Poetry Festival founder, 31-year-old Ashley M. Jones, has been named the first Black poet laureate for Alabama.
A dance director at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was fired after allegations of sexual misconduct.
SLIDESHOW - These 10 trailblazers are making their mark in areas of the arts where people of color traditionally have…