I do not know how this story will unfold; it is still being written. I know that to have a mid-life crisis for a black man is a luxury and not a privilege. Too many of us have ended up ...

I'd found a number of portraits that depict their black subjects as real people, not caricatures, and Joseph Johnson's was one of those. It was etched by John Thomas Smith in 1815 and appeared in ...

We have 20 of his stunning portraits, and his full set is worth ... Jeffries' explained in an email: "I think the overriding theme of my black and whites is emotion. Every image you see possesses ...

Oftentimes, the evidence for the presence of black people in this region of Europe is quite sparse, but in this case we have several confirmations, including a visual one. The mistress of the ...