“IAAM” is an abbreviation for the International African American Museum, but it also says “I Am.” The Museum opened in June in Charleston, SC on Gadsden’s Wharf, where an estimated 40 percent of our enslaved ancestors first set foot in North America. The message endures: “I Am Still Here.”

Please don’t say “I’m not creative”– because you are, of course. Painting on wood, using acrylic paints which dry fast and clean up with just running water, may set your painterly Muse free! Here’s our summer how-to.

So many ways to honor the Culture this June 19, from the silent to the loud, ever-proud. You bring strawberry soda and Red Velvet cupcakes. (P.S.– Send us photos from your Juneteenth party!)

Dispatch from Los Angeles: Works of art by an array of creators explore the 1619 passage, the Diaspora and myriad aspects of the Black experience into the present from astute political, cultural and social perspectives, now on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

How to find happiness We value many things in this life, but among all of these various currencies, including beauty and money, the most precious by far is time. As women standing in our fifth, sixth and seventh (and beyond!) decades, this realization may feel stark. Lost time cannot be recovered. Young women typically have […]