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Compton's award-winning Paul Robeson Players was once one of the longest-running Black theater companies in Los Angeles.
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Basquiat's "King Pleasure" exhibit comes to L.A. — a city that once fueled his creativity.
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Ramsess' quilts, mosaics, stained glass, and illustrations honor historic Black figures.
Women in Compton and South Central Los Angeles were influential in the development of Hip Hop on the West Coast.
"Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World)" will take visitors on a journey through Eversley's practice, zooming in on his explorations of material and color via his trove of parabolic lenses.
"Something Good – Negro Kiss," is a recently rediscovered 1898 silent short film featuring the earliest on-screen kiss between Black actors. Its recent rediscovery begs the question — what other lost pieces of Black film history could be out there, waiting to be found?
A new exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures highlights how Black cinema, despite the challenges of American racism, has carved its own paths throughout history.
Bruce Talamon has trained his lenses on some of the music industry’s brightest stars, but it all began at Wattstax.
Fifty years ago, music label Stax Records organized Wattstax, a benefit concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that commemorated the seventh anniversary of the 1965 Los Angeles Uprising.
Artist Ben Caldwell’s answer to the very real fears around gentrification and the attendant dispossession of Black people and their social contributions is Sankofa City, a multi-pronged media project that celebrates Leimert Park’s unique history while embracing technological change and redevelopment
In 1970, Larry Fuller published “Ebon,” the first comic with a titular Black superhero. Initially met with low sales, the project was discontinued after one issue. Over 50 years later, Ebon and his creator finally get their flowers.
Afro-speculative trailblazers John Jennings and Stacey Robinson are the creative duo behind "Black Kirby," an art collaborative that combines Afrofuturism with the superhero genre to imagine alternative worlds that center Black stories.