History is often taught as if serious art followed a single European arc—from classical Greek sculpture to Renaissance ...

The “African Renaissance” statue during its construction in August 2009. (via Wikipedia) On April 3, the West African nation of Senegal officially inaugurated one of the strangest statues in the ...

Rosa Parks: First Statue of African-American Female to Grace Capitol Feb. 27, 2013 -- intro: Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer, made history again today by becoming the first African American woman ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Queen Victoria, Cecil Rhodes, King Leopold. Statues honoring these leaders of colonial rule have been pulled down over the years in Africa after countries won independence or newer ...

Alain Locke is remembered as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance largely for assembling “The New Negro,” a 1925 anthology that immortalized a small group of young writers—Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — A life-sized statue of a local African American icon was unveiled in York County on Friday. The William C. Goodridge Freedom Center and Underground Railroad Museum hosted a statue ...

YONKERS, New York -- Community leaders in Yonkers unveiled the new Enslaved Africans Rain Garden on Friday. The five life-sized sculptures overlook the Hudson River. They tell the story of enslaved ...

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All in The statues can be gargantuan -- the African Renaissance Monument in Dakar is nearly 40 meters high (160 feet). They commemorate liberation heroes and independence movements and resemble the ...