Jack Whitten, Artist as Sojourner and Refugee, on Display at BMA
By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO
Jack Whitten, the distinguished contemporary Black artist, premieres at the the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) this weekend.
“Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017” features 40 works of an artist...
Tennessee Lawmakers Punish Memphis for Removing Confederate Statues
By The Associated Press
The Republican-dominated House in Tennessee voted Tuesday to punish the city of Memphis for removing Confederate monuments by taking $250,000 away from the city that would have been used for a...
Smithsonian Scholar Takes D.C. Kids Inside the Fascinating World of Cell Phones
Joshua Bell, a cultural anthropologist with the Smithsonian Institution, recently talked to students at a District of Columbia charter school about an everyday gadget that most people in the world use and how it...
New Website offers Services to Revolutionize Black Lodging Experience
Black travelers can now make lodging arrangements without fearing racial discrimination thanks to a new website called Noirbnb.
The famous house and rental sharing site, Airbnb, has faced controversy over claims by patrons of...
Fate of Annual HBCU Cuba Programs Unclear
With President Donald Trump enacting a new Cuba policy that aims to, among other things, curb tourism to the communist island, educators running journalism programs at Howard University and Morgan State University need more...
D.C. Students Travel to the Black Side of Panama
Seventeen students at National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter High School in Southeast Washington D.C. traveled and studied in Panama as a part of their curriculum, recently.
Shannon Cox, who teaches Spanish, helped arrange the May...
Baltimore Students to Study African Diaspora in Cuba
While youth in Baltimore are working summer-jobs or fending for themselves during the summer break, a group of students from Frederick Douglass High School will get an opportunity to study abroad in Cuba.
The opportunity...
