The Smithsonian Design Triennial at Cooper Hewitt features 25 bold projects that ask how we build, remember, and redefine ...

FORT SMITH, Ark. — Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel to space, will visit Fort Smith on Wednesday, April 9. Dr. Jemison will present a talk at the University of ...

Maddie Oliphant was recently crowned the first African-American Miss Mississippi Teen USA 2025. The Hickory native is now prepared to spread her community service platform, Maddie’s Little ...

Notes from Queen Elizabeth II, Cab Calloway, and Grace Kelly lay pressed between the yellowed pages. In 1976, Bailey became the first African American to receive the Screen Actors Guild Life ...

Nigerian filmmaker and creative director, Andy Amadi Okoroafor, has stated that African stories struggle with authenticity because Africans fail to design ... influence of American cinema ...

At the 2025 Autumn/Winter Shanghai Fashion Week, 22 African fashion brands debuted their latest collections here for the first time in hopes of entering the Chinese and even Asian markets. #GLOBALink ...

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What’s the biggest design U-turn of the past two decades? “When we started in 2004, wallpaper was a sure no-no, but we showed it. Now there’s a real appreciation of granny, or cottagecore ...

Jacqueline “Jackie” Hunter is the new executive director at the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids. JIM SLOSIAREK Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook ...

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"Parts and Labor Design's Capital City Diner presents a fresh prototype that never loses sight of its origin story for American diners everywhere," said the team. Black mosaic tiles are used to ...

Vance is already on the Smithsonian’s Board of Regents. The Smithsonian’s museums include the National Museum of the American Indian, the African American Museum, the Museum of African Art, the ...