Curated African American artifacts with historical context.
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James VanDerZee’s Couple in Raccoon Coats is one of the most celebrated photographic portraits of the Harlem Renaissance. The image depicts an elegan…
VanDerZee’s photography played a crucial role in documenting the cultural life of Harlem during one of the most importa…
All-Negro Comics #1, published in June 1947 , introduced pioneering characters such as Lion Man —a college-educated scientist and superhero widely re…
All-Negro Comics #1 is historically significant as the first comic book in the United States to be written and illustra…
Timely Digest , launched in April 1931 in Minneapolis , is recognized as the first Black-owned news magazine published in the United States . Unlike…
Timely Digest predates all other nationally recognized Black magazines, including Negro Digest (1942), Ebony (1945), an…
The Adventures of Black Eldridge: The Panther is a rare and boldly political underground comic published in 1970 by Marcus Books , one of the nation’…
The Adventures of Black Eldridge: The Panther is historically significant as both a reflection of and a participant in…
Depicting Negro Leagues legend Satchel Paige in a Cleveland Indians uniform, this card stands among the earliest mainstream releases for a Black play…
Satchel Paige broke barriers with his MLB debut and is remembered for incredible longevity and excellence, symbolizing…
This 1948 Booker T. Washington commemorative half dollar is graded MS67+ by PCGS with CAC approval, placing it at the absolute pinnacle for quality o…
The Booker T. Washington half dollar was the first U.S. coin to feature an African American and was designed by Isaac S…
This is an original newspaper dated September 21, 1895 , from The Athens Clipper (Athens, Georgia), reporting on Booker T. Washington’s celebrated sp…
This document captures one of the earliest published records of Washington’s “Atlanta Compromise” speech , in which he…
Quintet is a celebrated large-format acrylic painting by Ernie Barnes, depicting five jazz musicians in expressive motion, captured in Barnes’s hallm…
Barnes’s Quintet stands as a masterwork in modern American art, bridging genres while honoring the legacy of jazz and i…
This original Sunday comic strip artwork by George Herriman, dated June 23, 1918, showcases the classic trio of Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and Offisa P…
Krazy Kat is widely regarded as one of America’s greatest comic strips, influencing visual art, literature, and later g…
Ida B. Wells’s anti-lynching pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases is one of the most powerful documents of the early civil rights m…
Wells’s anti-lynching campaign helped lay the groundwork for future civil rights activism. Her investigative work repre…
Ebon #1, published in 1970 by Larry Fuller through the San Francisco Comic Book Company , is a pioneering work in comic book history. It is one of th…
Ebon #1 predates the solo titles of Luke Cage, Black Panther, and Blade , making it a formative work in the emergence o…
Ring Career is a landmark 1947 comic fully written and illustrated by Ted Carroll , recognized as the first Black creator in U.S. comics to achieve f…
Widely recognized as the first U.S. comic both written and drawn by an African American , Ring Career breaks new ground…