Artist’s portraits of people like Harriet Tubman and Mahatma Gandhi are a tribute to the many figures who battled discrimination

Decades after sparking protests, the museum takes another pass at presenting Manhattan’s historical centre of Black creativity

From the Venice Biennale to the Harlem Renaissance at the Met

With copyrights from 1928 expiring, thousands of creative works are now free to share, copy and build upon

The show will focus on the movement’s influences on Modernism on both sides of the Atlantic

The celebrated poet and activist lived in the 19th-century brownstone on East 127th Street for the last 20 years of his life

The Italian curator, who has organised exhibitions and events throughout the world, reveals the thinking behind her female-dominated exhibition The Milk of Dreams

His work was largely overlooked in his lifetime. Now, as a major retrospective opens in London, the late photographer's wife remembers a man who "broke new ground in American art"

The Tennessee-born artist, part of the Harlem Renaissance before settling in Paris, was largely neglected during his lifetime

From the legacy of Augusta Savage to memories of Leonard Cohen