Black History Month began as Negro History Week in 1926. Historian Carter G. Woodson, the founder of the Association for the Study Of African American Life and History (ASALH), selected the week ...

recognized the artworks belonged at the Black Archives, where they had recently been on display as part of A Man Among the People: A Purvis Young Homecoming Exhibition. “The Black Archives ...

while the Rauschenbergian tableaux of Purvis Young unsentimentally showcase the tough Overtown neighborhood which produced him. A series of psychedelically colorful, categorization-defying ...

Aaron McGruder, who has pushed more than a few hot buttons with his stinging “The Boondocks,” is gearing up for his “come to Black Jesus” moment ... about two young African American ...

Purvis Young was a self-taught African-American artist known for his expressive collages and paintings. Made on found objects, including scrap metal, book pages, and discarded envelops, his richly ...

Ma Jones was not to be blamed that the Jesus that hung in her household was an image of a young white man. She was like other Black Americans passing by that same picture of Jesus as one of the ...

For four decades, self-taught artist Purvis Young, who died April 20 at 67, celebrated American life in his paintings, ... Inspired by the Black Arts Movement’s Wall of Respect in Chicago, ...

"Purvis Young was a modern-day griot in terms of how he documented the Black experience through his eyes and what he saw in his environment," says Timothy A. Barber, executive director of the ...

It has been said and often that Purvis Young is to Overtown what Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were to Lower ...

A new exhibit at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in River North showcases works by the late Miami artist Purvis Young, who was inspired by Chicago’s historic "Wall of Respect" mural in Bronzeville.

Purvis Young, Folk Artist Who Peppered Miami With Images, Dies at 67. ... all different artists they say I looked like. A lot of black people seen them, but they didn’t say much to me about it.