T he Supreme Court of North Carolina unveiled the portrait of retired Associate Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson, the first African American woman to serve in the state’s highest court and the ...

click image for close-up During the Renaissance and for many years before, occasional African slaves were imported ... The term "Moorish Woman" in the title suggests that the woman was from ...

She points to a portrait made in 1859 of an African American woman with center-parted hair, lace gloves and a look of tremendous poise, style and confidence. The woman was Rhoda Goodridge ...

It included six portraits of women from various backgrounds ... She was one of the first African American women to pass the ...

In 2016, she submitted one of her paintings, a portrait called Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance), featuring an elegant African-American woman holding an oversized teacup, to the ...

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license. Coleman grew up in a cruel world of poverty and discrimination.

Amy Sherald, best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama, is affirmed as one of the most significant American artists of ...

To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Votes ... The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and ...

Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter known for his distinctive portraits. His subjects are often young black men and women, rendered in a Photorealist style against densely ...