The author served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon before working in Mali. "How do we sew together the hoped-for future and the unfortunate past, the bright as well as the darker patches in our ...

The next show at Yards Project at Worthington Yards in the Warehouse District shows how something considered a craft can also ...

Eli Leon, a psychologist, writer and collector and self-taught scholar of African-American quilts, who helped bring attention to the field and especially the quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins, died on ...

SAN ANTONIO — Quilts of family, black leaders, and names of those no longer with us line the walls at Central Library and Our Lady of the Lake University. "Black women have been quilting forever," ...

Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and analysis to make sense of the news. Episodes drop Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Emma’s Must-Sees See TV Programming Manager Emma ...

More than 100 beautiful, fascinating quilts of widely varied styles made primarily by African American women with Bay Area ties, and many of the stories behind them, comprise a compelling new ...

African Americans carried many things with them when fleeing the South’s oppression and poverty in the middle of the 20th Century – a movement of millions called the Second Great Migration. Among the ...