NIKE STAFFERS SAT around a conference room table inside the company's Oregon headquarters in late 2002 examining a space-age material. Black and tubelike, Tech Flex had commonly been found inside cars ...

Baxter Holmes (@Baxter) is a senior writer for ESPN Digital and Print, focusing on the NBA. He has covered the Lakers, the Celtics and previously worked for The Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times.

Today, Motor City is tapping into its creative history and Midwestern roots and blossoming once more. "In other places, people try to recreate this authenticity, and in Detroit, we just have it,'" ...

South African visual activist Zanele Muholi’s celebrated work centres the lives and experiences of Black lesbians and trans people. For more than two decades Muholi has used photography to ...

Queer choreographer Gregory Maqoma explores identity, cosmology and renewal in his powerful new dance work Genesis at the Joburg Theatre.

Explore the world of the black mamba, one of Africa’s most feared snakes, in this full compilation featuring both captive and ...

With the planned creation of new galleries for its Arts of Africa collection, the Brooklyn Museum hopes visitors will see ...

It's been over 100 years since the Brooklyn Museum started collecting African Art. This summer, they're renovating a new ...

There are few nicknames in sports that have been more fitting than Kobe Bryant and the "Black Mamba," but five years before Bryant adopted that nickname, Nike tried to give it to Michael Jordan. In a ...

The Brooklyn Museum is set to undergo a transformative expansion that will redefine how African art is experienced in New ...

Kobe Bryant’s “Black Mamba” moniker has become one of the most popular nicknames in sports history, but it was originally meant to be Michael Jordan’s. An ESPN story confirmed a longstanding rumor ...