The world-renowned Gee's Bend quilters recently held a Spring Yard Show, sharing their art and family history.

As locals and quilters enjoyed a fried fish plate at the Hotel Metropolitan in Paducah, they got to hear Loretta Pettway ...

I’m a folklorist, not an historian. My kind typically uses the past to help understand the present, rather than treating the past as subject matter in its own right. So I find myself turning Black ...

Seated at a Singer sewing machine at her home in Chicago’s Beverly community, Dorothy C. Straughter worked with extreme focus and intensity. Under her command, the machine spontaneously spelled out ...

Hanaphabi and Saidambi Naik, two middle-aged women from the Kalaghatgi taluk in Karnataka’s Dharwad district, were restless at first to speak in front of a camera. A few whisper-filled moments later, ...

Mount Vernon native and celebrated quilting artist Renée Fleuranges-Valdes is bringing color and joy to art lovers' homes everywhere with her debut art book "Becoming the Light: A Journal of ...

African quilting is a vibrant tradition that celebrates cultural heritage through intricate designs and patterns. Using fabric scraps to create these quilts not only promotes sustainability but also ...

African Americans carried many things with them when fleeing the South’s oppression and poverty in the middle of the 20th Century – a movement of millions called the Second Great Migration. Among the ...

More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ties, and many of the stories behind them, comprise a compelling new ...