The portrait, showing the influential media personality in a striking purple dress, was painted by Chicago artist Shawn Michael Warren

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The photo archives of Ebony and Jet magazines will be studied and digitised by Los Angeles’s Getty Research Institute and Washington, DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

National of Gallery of Art also plans to open its West Building in Washington, DC

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Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, will succeed Lonnie G. Bunch III

From freedom papers on view at the National Museum of African American History and Culture to Issac Julien's film about famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Goal of online portal is to spur dialogue about racism and its “corrosive impact”