Black History and Culture

Activists Take a Stand for Justice

Rosa Parks and the simple act of staying put

Print Media in the Civil Rights Movement

"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...."

A Journey to Educational Equality

Fighting for the right to learn

Black Power!

The movement, the legacy

What Were the Freedom Rides?

And how did they create change?

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction

Jim Crow and Racial Segregation

The distortion caused by "separate but equal"

The Civil Rights Movement in The Bay Area

The struggles and the triumphs

The Fight For Civil Rights - The Black Experience on Stamps

1968: The Year That Changed America

A look into the events that were to shape the nation forever

Ready for the Revolution

Education, arts, and aesthetics of the Black Power Movement

Breadbasket and The 1968 Black Christmas Parade

Black College Life in the New Deal

A unique reality of the Black experience in 1930s America

Chicago: Law and Disorder

In 1968, Chicago experienced a breakdown in the political process...

Voiced Across the Color Line

Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement

How Leaders in Georgia Fought for Equality

The leaders who never stopped fighting for change

Soldiers of the Coalfields

The Hidden Stories of Black Appalachians in WWI

The Civil Rights Movement at Carnegie Hall

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond

Works dating from the early 1920s through the 2000s

Black: a Color, a Material, a Concept

Explore the ways contemporary Black artists are exploring the possibilities of “Black”

Tom Lloyd at The Studio Museum in Harlem

His 1968 exhibition of electronically-programmed light works

African American Murals

The rich history of artworks created by African Americans in Los Angeles from the 1940s to now

Works from the Hewitt Collection of African American art

Works from Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Henry O. Tanner and Hale Woodruff

Bill Traylor

A visual autobiography of a former enslaved person

Virginia & Gospel

Unique gospel traditions

Monk at 100

Pianist, composer, iconoclast, and jazz icon, Thelonious Sphere Monk

Kansas City Jazz

Developing Kansas City style jazz with emergence of creative spaces

Train to Nashville

Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970

Train to Nashville

A story about a musically rich but little known chapter in the evolution of Nashville as Music City

The Story of Black History and Culture Through Dance

Celebrate Black History through the rich history of movement

The Journey of Memphis Jookin

Lil Buck walks you through the rise of Memphis Jookin

Tap is Timeless

Dancer Kenji Igus on the complex history of this rhythmic style of dance

The Black roots of Lindy Hop

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

13 Performances of Black Dance at the Kennedy Center

Introduce yourself to a world of tap, contemporary, ballet, and breakdance.

ABT's Rich History of Leading Diversity in Ballet

From Desmond Richardson to Misty Copeland and beyond

Alvin Ailey: Choreographer and Activist

Revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th-century concert dance

The Life of Alvin Ailey

Step Afrika!

The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence

Meet the Lindy Hop Ambassadors

Joshua McLean

Black, gay, out, and living in Harlem in the 1940's-60's

Strayhorn and Duke Ellington's songs provide the score for this bold work

Meet the Lindy Hop Ambassadors

Samuel Coleman

How MLK Jr. influenced a dance community

Dance Theatre of Harlem

Boldly embodying resilience in spite of a history of silencing and erasure

Gesel Mason: No Boundaries

Reclaiming her cultural narrative with ancestral stories & contemporary culture

Camille A Brown

Zora Neale Hurston’s "Moses, Man of the Mountain"

Reggie Wilson's Fist and Heel Performance Group