Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with the start of a coloring contest to celebrate Lincoln and work on a mural ...

A remedy to that fact arrived, finally, this month with “Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson,” just opened at the ...

Cherokee-Choctaw artist Jeffrey Gibson will see his Venice Biennale U.S. pavilion presentation appear at Los Angeles's Broad ...

Mr. Davis co-founded a Los Angeles gallery that became a hub of social activism and later became a guiding force for Maryland ...

During her lecture in the Hood Museum of Art, Cornejo spoke about her book, “Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in ...

Locally, deep-pocket developers have partnered with city officials to expand overdevelopment in the South of Laurel Area. A link to the draft Downtown Plan Expansion, is below. While the ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two North Dakota nonprofits have settled their lawsuit against a white nationalist hate group that ...

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Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

The two human services buildings — the almshouse and hospital — likely were the fourth and fifth buildings under county watch ...

This incident comes at a time when global discussions on state violence and human rights violations are intensifying. Many activists argue that the government’s crackdown on student-led protests and ...

The city of Springfield, Ohio has filed a lawsuit against an alleged neo-Nazi group for conducting what it claims to be a ...