Weeksville Heritage Center’s historic Hunterfly Road Houses will undergo a significant restoration

Almost half of the funding will go towards preserving Modernist buildings designed by Black architects

Art projects in Dallas and Houston are looking to preserve what is left of neglected ‘freedmen’s towns’ created by formerly enslaved African Americans

The Kiah house will be restored to its former glory, highlighting African American art, and providing housing to local artists

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument will include sites in Mississippi and Illinois

The artist’s latest exhibition, at Art + Practice, stems from her time spent in New Orleans exploring a rich seam of African American history

The Melt Goes on Forever tracks the revered US artist’s career, without his direct participation, to illuminating effect

The two-year grant Preserving Black Modernism extends the foundation's larger initiative to protect Modernist architecture

A series of installations and programmes draw on the Center for Brooklyn History's extensive archive

Places range from Alabama farms where civil rights marchers once camped to a Utah site where Chinese railroad labourers stayed

The Gilcrease Museum has also received a $300,000 grant to conserve and digitise the ephemera collection "so that these atrocities would not be forgotten"

Telling America’s overlooked stories is fundamental to building a true national identity, says preservationist Brent Leggs

Fourteen institutions including Tate will livestream Love is the Message, The Message is Death

Plus, remembering Christo—the art world's wrap star. Produced in association with Christie's

Although its building is still under construction, the institution is partnering with Lacma on a one-day film programme in South Los Angeles next month

Featuring archival documents, vintage images and contemporary art, 20 and Odd aims to correct a narrative about a nation's power and identity

Chicago artist strives for a poetic “resurrection” of African American stories in a solo show in Minneapolis

How four institutions swooped in to acquire four million images

Soul of a Nation includes around 150 works looking at the realities of the African American experience

Organised by the Detroit Institute of Arts, it is one of many commemorative events occurring throughout the city

93 works by 10 photographers track the evolution of this New York neighbourhood