Theaster Gates attends the Prada Spring/Summer 2024 Womenswear Fashion Show on September 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy.
Percival Everett, American author of The Trees, attends the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist photocall at Shaw Theatre on October 14, 2022 in London,...
Joan Reede, the Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard University, speaks during a gravestone dedication ceremony at Fairview...
Simone Leigh's 'Brick House' statue is seen on the closed High Line as the U.S. Begins to reopen on May 08, 2020 in New York City. COVID-19 has...
Dancers in Soundsuits by artist Nick Cave perform during the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art�s annual Art Bash, featuring their new Warhol...
In this NASA handout, NASA astronaut Victor Glover is seen during a NASA event where it was announced that he, and NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins are...
Creator/executive producer/writer/director/actor Donald Glover arrives at FX's "Atlanta Robbin' Season" FYC Event at the Saban Media Center on June...
Director Julie Dash poses for a portrait at the Roger Ebert Film Festival on Day four at the Virginia Theatre on April 21, 2018 in Champaign,...
Civil Rights Advocate Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw speaks onstage at 2018 Women's March Los Angeles at Pershing Square on January 20, 2018 in Los...
Writer Lena Waithe, winner of the award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for 'Master of None,' poses in the press room during the 69th...
Actress Ava DuVernay during the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards at the Santa Monica Pier on February 25, 2017 in Santa Monica, California.
Television producer Shonda Rhimes speaks at the 2016 Vulture Festival at Milk Studios on May 22, 2016 in New York City.
Artist Mickalene Thomas attends the "Closing the Gender Gap" artist talk and cocktails at Tumblr HQ on May 5, 2016 in New York City.
The Founder's Library at Howard University, February 29 in Washington, DC. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is joining Howard University...
Oprah Winfrey is seen on stage during her 'An Evening With Oprah' tour at Allphones Arena on December 12, 2015 in Sydney, Australia.
Actress Laverne Cox attends The 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 20, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
The United States Postal Service honors Robert Robinson Taylor with its its Black Heritage Stamp during the first day of issue ceremony at the...
Prima ballerina Misty Copeland is photographed for Los Angeles Times on May 22, 2014 in New York City. PUBLISHED IMAGE. CREDIT MUST BE: Carolyn...
American singer and musician Rhiannon Giddens, a founding member of country music group Carolina Chocolate Drops, 4th May 2013.
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance is producing Katherine Dunham's controversial "Southland." Dancers Edgar Page and Susan Richardson embrace on stage as...
Opera singer Barbara Smith Conrad performs during the Texas Medal of Arts Awards ceremony at The Long Center on March 1, 2011 in Austin, Texas.
Artist Kara Walker attends the opening reception for the reinstallation of contemporary art from the collection at MOMA on June 29, 2010 in New York,...
Professor and Social Activist Cornell West introduces Presidential Candidate Barack Obama during a campaign fundraiser held at the Apollo Theater on...
Guitarist Vernon Reid poses for a portrait with his custom Hamer guitar on March 23, 2006 in New York City.
- Lewis H. Latimer Society in Chelsea founded in 1997 by brothers Ron and Leo Robinson. The African American inventor was a Chelsea native and worked...
Hammond B-3 electric organ. The organ is covered in black vinyl and trimmed with silver roping. Stitched on the back of the organ in red vinyl and...
Portrait of American artist Emilio Cruz as he poses with six panels from one of his 'Homo Sapiens' series of paintings, 2000s.
Out DATE: 7/31/2004 PHOTOG: Rebecca D'Angelo/FTWP LOCATION: DAR museum, Washington DC CAPTION: Author Rosemary Reed Miller, signs books and greets...
American astronaut Michael P. Anderson , circa 1995. Anderson was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, who served as a payload commander and...
American actress Halle Berry accepts the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Monster's Ball", at the 74th Annual Academy Awards,...
Thelma Golden, curator of the exhibition Freestyle opening at Santa Monica Museum, scheduled for September 29, 2001. Photo of Golden, September 27,...
Noted African-American sculptor Richard Hunt grinds and polishes a metal sculpture while at a foundry or studio, Chicago, IL, 2000.
Portrait of American artist Faith Ringgold as she poses in front of one of her paintings in her studio, New York, New York, 1999.
Deborah Feingold/Corbis via Getty Images) American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, author, and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, 1999.
Poet and civil rights advocate Maya Angelou is photographed for Los Angeles Times on November 14, 1998 in Beverly Hills, California. PUBLISHED IMAGE....
Few people in St. Paul have ever heard of the late Clarence Wesley Wigington, but the obscure Black architect's legacy stands on about every corner...
Artist William Pope L. Performs ‘ATM Piece’ at a Chase Bank in midtown Manhattan February 1997 in New York City, New York. He tied himself to the...
One Sheet movie poster advertises 'The Watermelon Woman' , a lesbian drama directed by and starring Cheryl Dunye, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1996.
American NASA astronaut Bernard A Harris and British-American NASA astronaut Michael Foale prepare to leave the airlock for extravehicular activity...
American rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, aka Chris Wallace , rolls a cigar outside his mother's house in Brooklyn, New York, 18th January...
Rapper Tupac Shakur poses for photos backstage after his performance at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois in March 1994.
Profile of American film director John Singleton as he poses, with his eyes closed and head tilted back, against a rose-colored background, Los...
American actress Mary Alice attends the 1993 Primetime Emmy Awards, held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, 19th September...
American R&B group Boyz II Men in the press room of the 35th Annual Grammy Awards, held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, 24th...
Rapper Da Brat, poses for photos on the set of her video "Fa All Y'All" in Chicago, Illinois, January 1993.
American engineer and astronaut Mae Jemison works in zero gravity in the centre aisle of the Spacelab Japan science module aboard OV-105, the Space...
