Renowned author and scholar Dr. Jessica B. Harris has dedicated her career to the study of foods across the African Diaspora. With the opening of African/American: Making the Nation's Table, an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California" is on view at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

When good fortune arrives, it’s always best to have talent on tap to take care of it. Dr. Elaine Yau’s appointment as BAMPFA’s first associate curator for the Eli Leon Living Trust Collection of ...

National Quilt Day falls in March during Women's History Month. It was established in 1991 by the National Quilting ...

UC Berkeley Art Museum was recently gifted the world’s largest collection of this type of art, all of it created by black women. Much like certain perspectives have historically been shut out from the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Like any jazz artist, the ability to adapt and improvise is a welcome skill. For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of ...

Robert Trimble was a young man when his mother gave him a crocheted bedspread she had kept for years in an old trunk at the foot of her bed. Her grandmother, Winnie Moore, made the cotton bedspread, ...

Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to ArkLaTex. Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism. TEXARKANA, Texas -- A new exhibition opening ...

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning, a group of African American women banded together with purpose: support one another as quilt artists and capture and promote the culture of their community ...

The African American Quilt Guild of Gaston County takes pride in maintaining Black history in quilting and supporting the community with their work. Barbara Hart, 80, started the quilt guild in April ...

SAN ANTONIO — Quilts of family, black leaders, and names of those no longer with us line the walls at Central Library and Our Lady of the Lake University. "Black women have been quilting forever," ...

The collector Eli Leon left almost 3,000 quilts by African-American artists to Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as a bequest. By Peter Libbey Almost 3,000 quilts by African-American ...