Racial Politics

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Black Brazilian contemporary artists confront the racial violence of the state 

BY Denise Ferreira da Silva |

The special-edition Fourth of July shoe has been criticized for using an icon of slave-era America

BY Kadish Morris |

‘Black people don’t fear the dead, it’s the living we worry about’

BY Nadia Latif |

Maryland Institute College of Art has addressed its admissions policy which refused black students between 1895 and 1954

BY Frieze News Desk |

A new book traces the role of the black model in art history from the 19th century to today

BY Frieze News Desk |

Black Lives Matter Arts+Culture has been launched in a bid to promote African American artists ‘changing the world’

The artist reflects on the sounds that have shaped their thinking

BY Evan Ifekoya |

A PR agency darkened white students’s skin and digitally inserted black students into a class trip photo

Why the sportswear corporation built a brand philosophy premised on personal transcendence and social justice

BY Alan Bradshaw |

How will the Black Panther writer, known for his landmark critical assessments of race, take on the quintessential symbol of Americana?

BY Julian Chambliss |

On the eve of a major show at the National Portrait Gallery, considering the legacy of MJ in light of ‘Apeshit’ and fraught debates on Blackness

BY Sonya Dyer |

At BALTIC, Gateshead, the Turner prize-winner uses East African fabrics and the words of renowned black writers to question ideas of belonging

BY Kadish Morris |

A surprising show of silhouettes at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. sheds light on obscure chapters of US history 

BY Evan Moffitt |

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits of a fictional aristocratic Nigerian family push toward an expanded definition of the ‘black experience’

BY Chase Quinn |

Inspired by Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial, it’s the first of its kind in the country

Public debate around Confederate insignia has little to do with historical fact, and everything to do with collective memory

BY Julian Chambliss |

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

BY Jonathan Griffin |