Kansas Statehouse murals that highlight abolitionist John Brown are among among “8 Wonders of Kansas Art” chosen through ...

Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, poses this question in an essay that opens an important new book of crime photos by the late Gordon Parks. “From the beginning, the ...

In the fight for Black liberation, African-American photographer, filmmaker, author and composer Gordon Parks (1912-2006) transformed storytelling into activism. “Finally, after a long search to find ...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A newly-released book highlights the groundbreaking life of Kansas-born photojournalist and filmmaker, Gordon Parks. "Grit and Grace: Gordon Parks," by Overland Park resident Ann ...

Photographer Gordon Parks created an arresting visual essay about the experience of segregation in 1950, on the eve of the Civil Rights movement. It’s now on view in an exhibition at the Museum of ...

The re-release and exhibition of Gordon Parks’ “Born Black” bring new relevance to the famed photographer’s perspective on Black American life. The late Gordon Parks — director, composer, memoirist, ...

Kendrick Lamar‘s striking new music video for his track “Element” is a meditation on the complexities, struggles, and triumphs of the black experience in America, something that was further emphasized ...

A posthumous anthology of photo essays by the curator and art historian reveals the “troubling reality” of prejudice and the power of images to “undermine the very concept of difference.” By Holly ...

Legendary photographer Gordon Parks, who would have been 100 today, was a master of contradictions. His fashion photography captured the beauty and opulence of the 1940s and ’50s elite with carefully ...

Photo: Gordon Parks. Copyright: Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation. I remember seeing a black and white photo of Diana Ross surrounded by her ...

David Parks hasn’t read many of the media accounts lauding his father, Gordon, since his death last March. He already knows what they say. “The thing is, all the stuff being written about him has been ...