Black Visual News Today

In the limited Netflix series Ladies First: A Story of Hip-Hop, the ladies will kick it the rhyme that is wicked – and those who don’t know how to be pros...

She was an artist who was studying anthropology when she became an activist in the civil rights movement and a rare woman to document Black life in photos.

  Watch YouTube remains a great resource for arts education. Although this is by no means an exhaustive list, check out some of these videos to begin your research. Colored Frames (2007) is a documentary about art from the 1960s to the early 2000s featuring Benny Andrews, Howardena Pindell, Wangechi Mutu, and others. TedX has a couple of gems. “Can Art Amend History?” features the artist Titus Kaphar giving a demonstration of how art can contain unspoken truths. And Pamela Joyner’s “Re...