This is a column by Editorial Page Editor Adam Van Brimmer. The pedestal stands like a promise, just a few paces upriver from the powerplant turned hotel at Plant Riverside. A bust of Martin Luther ...

African artists are taking the world by storm with their innovative use of recycled tires, creating stunning sculptures that ...

The statues have stood outside of the Shelbourne Hotel since 1867. Ardfern via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 / psyberartist under CC BY 2.0 In 1824, a man named Martin Burke converted three ...

Towering above us in bronze and stone, monuments can inspire awe, curiosity, and outrage. But can they also help us heal? That is the proposition of one museum in Texas, which has decided to house and ...

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 ...

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, ...

The owners of the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin will reinstall four statues after controversially removing them earlier this summer in the mistaken belief that they were representations of slave girls.

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 ...

Perceived as exotic when European colonialists brought back statues from Congo, the full lips with rounded waists ― symbols of fertility, longevity and good fortune ― as well as stern facial ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A statue that once glorified the Confederacy was moved to its new home at the Houston Museum of African American Culture Tuesday. The Spirit of the Confederacy, which depicts ...

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 ...