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Why Is This Black Youth Scuffling With a Horse?
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. One of the most well-preserved, vivid impressions of the ancient Greek…
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The Meaning Behind a Nubian Ruler’s Offering to a Falcon God
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. For many, the grandeur of ancient Egypt is evoked by its…
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How a Black Wise Man’s Pious Act Relates to Slavery
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Editor’s note: For the Image of the Week column on the…
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Why One of the Wise Men Is Black
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. In this intriguing evocation of a time-honored Christian theme, three kingly…
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Black Archer Eyes an Unseen Enemy
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Moving rapidly to the left, the dynamic figure of a black…
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Image Recalls Christianity’s Arrival in Ethiopia
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. This remarkable visual account of the bringing of Ethiopia into the…
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An Early Glimpse of Philadelphia’s Black Entrepreneurs
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Before a fixed symbol of the financial might of early Philadelphia,…
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Horror of Slavery Turns Art Into Protest
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. This scene of heart-wrenching separation occurs on a narrow beach along…
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Here’s a Rarity: Blacks Performing in a Painting Free of Racist Overtones
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Thomas Eakins was, with Winslow Homer, one of the foremost American…
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A Black Warrior’s Defeat Is Still a Symbolic Victory
This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, part of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. Tucked away within the winding streets of the southern-French town of…
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