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What are the thought-leaders of Black Arts, Black Diaspora Studies, and Slavery Studies up to right now? Check out Special Events and find out!

History is Rarely Black or White
20 March 2022

The cotton industry advanced climate change, widened global income disparity and commercialized the oppression of marginalized…

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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
9 November to 15 March 2019

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, USA This internationally acclaimed exhibition, organized by Tate Modern, celebrates art…

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Fugitifs!: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada
10 April to 8 September 2019

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec The MNBAQ presents the Fugitives! exhibition, designed and orchestrated by historian and…

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Black Models: from Gericault to Matisse, Musee D’Orsay, Paris, France
26 March to 21 July 2019

Musee D’Orsay, Paris, France Taking a multi-disciplinary approach that combines the history of art and the history…

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African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940’s and 50’s
26 June to 6 November 2018

The Metropolitan Museum, NYC, USA This exhibition presents more than one hundred and fifty studio portraits of…

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Legacies Denied: Unearthing the Visual Culture of Canadian Slavery
22 May to 31 August 2013

McGill University’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library, Montreal, Canada A book of the same name was published…

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Anonymous, Nurse and baby, copied for Mrs. Farquharson in 1868 (19th century), silver salts on paper mounted on paper, albumen process, 8.5 x 5.6 cm, McCord Museum, Montreal.

Anonymous, Nurse and baby, copied for Mrs. Farquharson in 1868 (19th century), silver salts on paper mounted on paper, albumen process, 8.5 x 5.6 cm, McCord Museum, Montreal.

Ten Views in the Island of Antigua, [London], Thomas Clay, 1823, hand-colored aquatint, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Ten Views in the Island of Antigua, [London], Thomas Clay, 1823, hand-colored aquatint, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

George H. Craig, Selling Baskets on Market Day, Halifax (c. 1890), Photograph. Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, Dartmouth Heritage Museum, Dartmouth, Canada.

George H. Craig, Selling Baskets on Market Day, Halifax (c. 1890), Photograph. Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, Dartmouth Heritage Museum, Dartmouth, Canada.