Continuing last year’s popular series, throughout Art Basel Miami Beach we are speaking to members of the local art scene about their favourite cultural destinations around Miami

Almost half of the funding will go towards preserving Modernist buildings designed by Black architects

Art projects in Dallas and Houston are looking to preserve what is left of neglected ‘freedmen’s towns’ created by formerly enslaved African Americans

The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans has received a grant from the Terra Foundation to get the 41 paintings ready for their first public exhibition since 2010

The few remaining houses that recall New Amsterdam are also reminding visitors of the overlooked histories of local Indigenous and Black communities

The Louisiana institution's Wangechi Mutu exhibition gives students a new perspective on African American studies

A cemetery hidden under a Florida air base is the latest African American burial site rediscovered following decades of erasure

Tavares Strachan’s monument is included in major colonialism survey at the Royal Academy

The photos are part of a 50,000-strong archive being preserved by the artist J.K. Bruce-Vanderpuije's granddaughter

From Wangari Mathenge at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery to a celebration of Black British designers at Somerset House

Artists Olalekan B. Jeyifous and Amanda Williams have been given the go-ahead to realise a commemorative statue of the political legend

Also commemorating the arrival of the vessel from the Caribbean is a new exhibition at London's V&A and a display in London's Piccadilly Circus

The New York photographer pioneered lighting and developing techniques that helped transformed how Black figures were photographed and seen

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

As Black History Month begins in the US, arts administrator and historian Tsione Wolde-Michael gives three key points for institutions to consider

After 36 years, artist Kevin Atherton unveils a new work modelled on one of his original muses, local resident Joy Battick

The public sculpture is based on a photograph of the assassinated civil rights leader hugging his wife Coretta Scott King—but some say it looks offensive from certain angles

The sculptor and ceramicist has made works in response to the decorative arts collection at Florida International University’s Wolfsonian Museum, and created a mural with local communities

From wool sculptures inspired by Malcolm X to Sonia Boyce's first-ever commercial gallery solo show

The Los Angeles artist’s exploration of the Black experience in the US can be poignant, humorous and unsettling, as evidenced in her solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures exhibition exlores the contributions of celebrated and overlooked minds in Hollywood alongside works by contemporary artists

Turner prize nominee Ingrid Pollard seeks out depictions of African figure that "haunt every English town and village"

Artist’s multi-site work focuses on issues such as surveillance and race

Berlin Biennale conference will focus on "decolonising" arts and culture

Artists including Lakwena Maciver and Godfried Donkor will create work examining colonial history in Britain

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Senator Patricia Bovey's initiative 'Honouring Canada's Black Artists' bringing works by Black Canadian artists into the Senate building is now in its second iteration

The third iteration of the artist’s 'Libraries' series will be permanently installed at the Rollins Museum of Art in Florida

Baldwin, who has died at the age of 92, was a “shining example of generosity” driven by his experience of the Civil Rights Movement

“Rich and fascinating” connections explored in Life Between Islands: British-Caribbean Art 1950s-Now