In a room packed with young people, 23-year-old Brittany guides attendees to a raffle sign-up sheet and admonishes them to come to future events. Jennifer, 28, a Californian who recently got her masters in urban planning, examines posters for community service initiatives. While she checks her Blackberry, her friend Michael, a native New Orleanian, explains [...]

A wealthy black couple, who has amassed one of the country’s largest private collections of African-American art, is donating more than a 100 works to the Georgia Museum of Art. The donation, which includes prints, sculptures and paintings of well-known and obscure artists, is estimated to be worth at least 1.5 million dollars. It includes [...]