Famous Black artists have changed the landscape of ... in a white male-dominated industry when she became the first African-American professional sculptor in the U.S. and the first to achieve ...

Their mission was to research and promote the achievements of Black Americans and other people of African descent, including famous black poets ... She uses her art to highlight the quest for ...

was also an outspoken advocate for the end of slavery and worked to better the lives of African-Americans through much of his life. Charmaine Nelson, provost professor of art history at the ...

A display of Bannister's work will be at the Owens Art Gallery until April. (Edward Mitchell Bannister/Wikimedia) Bannister, who was born in Saint Andrews in 1828, was also an outspoken advocate for ...