"In 1926, as the Harlem Renaissance surged and the music was transforming American culture,...

By Enoch NaklenMultimedia JournalistStanding at the intersection of Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Bed-Stuy, the Bishop...

Fern GillespieAs Producing Artistic Director of New Federal Theatre, renowned theatre actress and director...

By Fern GillespieWhether it’s her day job as an acclaimed hair stylist and wigmaker...

Fern GillespieLurita (LB) Brown, owner of Clinton Hill Simply Art & Framing Gallery, is...

by Fern Gillespie When author Donna Hill, Executive Director for the Center for Black Literature...

"Divine Nine Sunday, December 14, transformed the Whitney Museum of American Art in...

Fern GillespieWhen Brooklyn sculptor Helen Evans Ramsaran returned to the Studio Museum in Harlem...

The documentary Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story, directed by Yemi Bamiro (white sneakers) and produced by Joan Boateng (orange blouse) of Misfit Entertainment, with Lizzie Gillett, Ian Bonhote, and Andrew Calof made its North American debut, last Thursday, Nov. 13 during the DOC NYC 2025 Festival for Documentaries presented at the SVA Theater in Manhattan. Executive producers include (in photo, at right) Brathwaite's son, Kwame S. Brathwaite and daughter in-law Robynn Brathwaite, who are featured in the film with Sikolo Brathwaite (Kwame's wife, unpictured) other family members

Artist & Urban Griot Makes the Connections That Matter …in Life and On Canvas...

Fern GillespieBrooklyn youth creatively learn the African Diaspora legacy dance and drum through Asase...

by Fern GillespieIn an era where federal arts institutions are cautious in exhibiting political...