Adorning the walls of the Historic Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum in Overtown is a series of artworks, each ...

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 ...

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 ...

Purvis Young, a self-taught painter who emerged from ... painted by members of the Black Arts Movement. In the early 1970s he created a mural of his own, plastering a wall along a deserted stretch ...

"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 ...

For four decades, self-taught artist Purvis Young, who died April 20 at 67 ... the activities of contemporary art. Inspired by the Black Arts Movement’s Wall of Respect in Chicago, he had ...

With shades on his face and paint on his fingers, Purvis ... Today, the Black Archives boasts a collection of several hundred works, and the Culmer/Overtown library features a Young mural that ...

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 ...