1937 – 2025. Roberta Flack was a virtuoso singer- pianist. With majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” Ms. Flack, a former schoolteacher, became one of the most widely heard artists of the 1970s.
1940 – 2025. An award-winning writer and director who became the first Black African filmmaker to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, transitioned in Bamako, Mali. He was 84. Mr. Cissé was catapulted to worldwide fame with the release in 1987 of “Yeelen” (“Light” in his native Bambara).
by Jaida Dent, The Brooklyn Vanguard. On March 4, the Brooklyn College Art Gallery opened its doors for its newest installation. Curated by Professor Bentley Brown, the gallery presents two exhibitions: Deborah Willis’s “Saturation: Beauty in the Everyday” and Mason Webb’s “Sonic Saturation”.
Interview with PaperMonday. An interview with Dr. Joan Morgan on Hip Hop journalism with PaperMonday.
by Isabella Marie Garcia, BURNAWAY. Isabella Marie Garcia interviews Miami-based artist and poet Arsimmer McCoy about turning her home into the Carol City Museum, along with the importance of preserving the histories of her family and neighborhood.
The Vilcek Foundation announced the 2025 recipient of the Vilcek Prize for Excellence in Literary Scholarship on Feb. 3. Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was named as this year’s honoree.
The Art Gallery at Brooklyn College. Two new exhibitions curated by Bentley Brown (NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts), will be held in the Art Gallery at Brooklyn College from March 4 through April 1. “Saturation, Beauty in the Everyday” features a career survey of works by pioneering photographer, historian, and MacArthur Fellow Deborah Willis.
The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art. Co-curated by Dr. Cheryl Finley & Dr. Deborah Willis, this exhibition considers in comparative perspectives the historic and contemporary role photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath.
ACA Galleries. ACA Galleries is pleased to present Robert Carter and Charles White in Dialogue, an exhibition pairing works by two artists long recognized for their socially and historically engaged artistic practices spanning decades.
California African American Museum. Repossessions is a group exhibition inspired by the concept of reparations: the effort to repair the economic and psychological devastation caused by slavery for descendants of enslaved African Americans. It presents the work of five Black artists commissioned to create artworks based on documents from the enslavement and sharecropping eras in the United States.