Breathe On

Black Business, Arts, and Education

August 21, 2023

A landmark of Detroit civil rights history is getting a boost with a national $75,000 grant. The Detroit Historic Designation Advisory Board has been selected as one of only eight projects nationwide to receive a $75,000 History of Equal Rights Grant ...

Hip-hop is grabbing the mic and busting a move at the St. Louis Art Museum. “The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century,” an exhibition that debuted at the Baltimore Museum of Art, is on view Aug. 19-Jan. 1. This is the ...

Dallas Black Dance Theatre sold thousands of virtual seats to its online performances during the pandemic. The dancers adapted to outdoor stages across Dallas and developed new audiences along the way.

At the close of World War I, as American troops returned home after defending democracy, Black Marionites still had to demand equal treatment as they lived and worked in an expanding, industrializing, modernizing Marion, according to a ...

Black-owned businesses are getting a chance to connect this week with the community in Minneapolis. Tents lined up and down the parking lot of the Midtown Global Market for the Black Entrepreneur State Fair. The fair is a weeklong ...

Amarie Gipson and Janice Bond are native Houstonians who are also some first-class book hoarders. Gipson has been building her book collection since the 12th grade, while Bond says she’s lived and traveled with her collection for a long ...

Dallas Black Dance has been at the forefront of contemporary modern dance for more than four decades. With this new season, the company continues to push the boundaries of dance and provide audiences with a truly unforgettable experience ...

Advocates for historically Black colleges have spent years urging Congress to shore up their aging campus infrastructure and boost their research capabilities — and the Biden administration’s grant competition announcement earlier this month is the ...

The value of entrepreneurship has long been a major influence in the Black community, making it an essential contributor to the nation’s economy. Simultaneously, recent forces like the devastating impact of the pandemic and ...

The theme for the first-ever ForbesBLK Summit is The Future of Black Entrepreneurialism: Convening Culture, Creativity and Community. The event will ignite critical conversations with leaders across the Black community who are ...

The Tampa Bay History Center recently opened a permanent 100-artifact installation delving into 500 years of Black history in Tampa Bay. "Travails and Triumphs" opened in June and is the history center's first new permanent exhibit in five years. It ...