Samella Lewis's African American Art and Artists foregrounds the work of artists who have been influencing the texture of art in the United States during the last two decades of the twentieth century.
White’s mural, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy (1943) at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across history. He saw art as a ...
The hat and shirt had become symbols of grass roots entrepreneurship and a mainstream African-American business. By the mid–1980s, Famous Amos Cookies had outgrown their founder. The business went ...