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 ...

Over several weeks, she made a small quilt, three squares by two squares, with a design similar to a kite block pattern. For the pillow, she selected a dimensional bow tie block pattern.

Different cultures and historic eras have had various approaches to imitation, originality and improvisation in art forms. In much traditional art in Asia, careful imitation of the work of a master ...

DELRAY BEACH -- Slaves learned a mnemonic, or memory-jogging story, to guide them in their quest for freedom, according to Ozella McDaniel Williams. Her oral history was recorded by Jacqueline Tobin ...