The hit online show, The Book Look, opens up with Mayor Cory Booker, catches up with Daniel Black and Twelve Gates to the City, and covers the anthology and new movement, Steamfunk! Host Monda Webb and contributors Charisse Carney-Nunes and Kwame Alexander keep the pages turning while Najee Dorsey talks Art by the Book.

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Najee Dorsey, Founder/CEO of Black Art In America

Yesterday May 26, 2013 was a very interesting day. In the morning I found myself in a chat…

Black Art In America in partnership with the Book Look is working together to gain more exposure for artists of color. The Book Look is your online TV source for celebrating books, authors, celebrities and events relevant to the African American literary…

"Deacons Revisited" by Najee Dorsey, mixed media collage 44 x 31"

The history that inspired the…

Assistant Professor of Art and PVAMU alumnae Ann ‘sole sister’ Johnson ‘92, is most known for her distinct artistic vision as well as an extraordinary ability to paint with her feet. Johnson has been invited to teach this summer at the prestigious Tougaloo Art Colony in Jackson, MS.…

No One is free until we all are free.…

FRAME OF REFERENCE: Andrea Barnwell Brownlee at the museum with Carrie Mae Weems' "I Looked and Looked and Failed to See What So Frightened You."                                                                                                                         (photo:…

On August 16, 1859. a letter was written by Harriet Newby wife of Dangerfield Newby believed to be the real life story that the character for Django the movie is modeled after. Below is a copy of the letter, a story I want to share with you with the focus of the art work being on the wife. (the text around the piece is the entire letter written below)

The Harlem Fine Arts Show returns to Riverside Church February 7-10…

WORD, SHOUT, SONG: LORENZO DOW TURNER

WORD, SHOUT, SONG: LORENZO DOW TURNER CONNECTING COMMUNITIES THROUGH LANGUAGE

This exhibition documents the historical journey made by people from Africa to the Americas, along with their language and music. In the 1930s, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered that the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina retained parts of the culture and language of their West African enslaved ancestors. Turner’s…