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The award-winning British photographer has spent nearly two decades tracking down descendants of notable people and asking them to pose for recreated portraits of their famous ancestors. The post 6 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Black Civil War Heroes And Their Direct Descendants first appeared on Bored Panda.

Descendants of several civil rights leaders and abolitionists came together Tuesday at a Black History Month event hosted by the White House.

The latest institution to confront its colonial past, the RA does so to enthralling effect, using the art and its subjects – spanning 250 years, from Turner to Lubaina Himid – rather than the wall texts to shock and enlighten

This complex, nuanced show reckons with the past of the Royal Academy itself

Working-class white former Confederates joined Black families to save free public schools that oligarchs were trying to eliminate. If they could come together then, what’s stopping Americans from uniting now?

A mural depicting Frederick Douglass in a chunky wristwatch, a slim-cut suit and crisp white Converse has divided the town of Easton, Md., in his birth county of Talbot.

Maybe a lesson about people who refuse to learn from the instructive dissent of social movements

Abraham Lincoln is portrayed making arguments that sound like modern Proud Boys begging a judge for forgiveness

A fascinating new exploration of Frederick Douglass' constitutional thought.

A SCOTTISH island hotel has been urged to publicly acknowledge its historic links with slavery ...

A statue of the former slave, turned writer and statesman, is now on display in Lombard Street in the city centre.