A famous quilt made to teach Black history and shown around the country during the 1976 United States Bicentennial celebration was stolen from the lobby of the Oregon Historical Society in Portland ...

Students celebrated Black History Month by creating a “Freedom Quilt” honoring the Underground Railroad at 4:30 p.m. Monday at Lincoln Elementary School. The Lincoln Promise Community Learning Center, ...

The quilter's fabric is soft, her stitches shine with golden thread and the setting for seeing her handiwork is the stillness of a church. Yet, viewers can't help but be jarred because, attached to ...

The new exhibit African/American: Making the Nation’s Table will run from February 23 to June 19, 2022, at the Aliko Dangote Hall at the Africa Center at The Museum of Food and Drink on 5th Avenue in ...

A quilt featuring Black pioneers of the past century from a county in western North Carolina is on display at a recently opened African American museum in the state, according to the Gaston Gazette.

A quilt that was made more than 50 years ago in Black Bottom, a famous Black neighborhood, has resurfaced. It's bringing back all kinds of memories. In Detroit, the neighborhood of Black Bottom ...

NEW YORK — Upon entering Aliko Dangote Hall at the Africa Center, you’re immediately confronted with the breadth and scope of the role African Americans have played in shaping our country’s food and ...

The Sisters in Stitches Joined By The Cloth and other guilds imbue history, culture, and social justice into their art. In the hands of Lesyslie Rackard and her sewing sisters, quilts talk. Listen to ...

Before she died on Dec. 11, 1999, of AIDS-related complications, 16-year-old New Orleans resident Cocoa Doomes, who had been diagnosed with HIV since elementary school, had written an obituary that is ...

FILE - Artist Faith Ringgold poses for a portrait in front of a painted self-portrait during a press preview of her exhibition, "American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold's Paintings of the 1960s" ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Faith Ringgold, an ...