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Combatting the stereotype of apathetic youth, Rock the Vote – the nonpartisan nonprofit created to see young people through America’s political process – has found a new way to galvanize and inspire millennials to vote in the upcoming election in November… Art. Using innovation and creativity, the organization partnered with #Cut50 and other national and community […]

Cliffannie Forrester is going places. This young, Black female is only 18 and already has a painting hanging in the New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"The Circle of Mothers Project," embodies their love, pain and sacrifice, but also the impact that systematic racism has on Black families.

Engineer by training, artist from the heart. This is how Daniel Hibbert views his very intricate life. The Minnesota native, Brooklyn-based artist held his first…

Artistic expression came alive in the halls of a New York high school this month with the help of the legendary 5Pointz artists and Syreeta…

The timescape of Harlem culture ebbs and flows as the decades roll on and right now, the art world there is cresting. The evidence: these 16 images of visual art by artists whose lives have intersected with New York’s storied community.  Even if you can’t make it to the upcoming Flux Art Fair, on May 14-17, […]

Following the wave of women who came forward with sexual allegations against Bill Cosby, his own creations are being utilized to call out the comedian, thanks to street artist…

#ArkOfReturn:UN to unveil memorial in #NewYork honoring victims of transatlantic #slave trade http://t.co/Rz5feg8BBw pic.twitter.com/wk4Uy76c81 — UNIC Beirut (@UNICBeirut) March 25, 2015 For this year’s International…

Keep checking this page through 11:59 p.m. on Saturday for photos and Tweets from #BLM247. Why? As the people from  Black Lives Matter said in…