Warren King transforms cardboard into intricate sculptural reflections of his Chinese-American family’s immigration.

Leif-Erik Nygards’ one photograph of Marilyn Monroe. When he met her, Nygards was an assistant to photographer Bert Stern. Following a shoot, Nygards asked if he could take just one picture for ...

The CBS Building in New York City, or Black Rock, is an imposing 38-story building of black marble. Leaning away from the glass and concrete construction of the time, Saarinen wanted to create ...

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In this groundbreaking work, Du Bois reexamined Reconstruction by centering Black agency and arguing that formerly enslaved ...

Internationally hailed as one of the greatest songstresses of our time, Grammy award-winning Roberta Flack remains unparalleled. Her songs bring insight into our lives, loves, culture and politics, ...

Monroe's father's identity is unconfirmed; her mother is confined to asylums. She will spend her childhood in a series of orphanages and foster homes. The Goddard family relocates and cannot take ...

1953: Graduates from Howard University, receiving her B.A. in English 1955: Awarded a Master’s degree in English from Cornell University. She receives a teaching position at Texas Southern University ...

When I was five, I had an experience that marked me for life. Pathé News sent a photographer from New York to Savannah to take a picture of a chicken of mine. This chicken, a buff Cochin Bantam, had ...

Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty (1933 – 1993), both successful singer-songwriters in their own right, together made 11 studio albums between 1971 and 1988. Hits from those country albums included five ...

New York – For decades, arthritis has slowly devoured the talent in Les Paul’s hands. The right essentially has become a stiff claw. The ring and pinkie are all that is usable on the left, and ...