“Is she Black?” A Roman noblewoman asks her friend about Cleopatra in Cecil B DeMille’s garish Hollywood epic starring Oscar winner Claudette Colbert as the titular Egyptian monarc ...

Edmonia Lewis is inarguably the most renowned mixed-race artist in American history. Her father was a free West Indian and ...

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