A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

Kelly Strayhorn Theater will present dance artist Jesse Factor in a three-part program blending pop music and modern dance. Factor's solo performance, The Marthaodyssey, running Friday & Saturday ...

His talk is free. The icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa has been intimately associated with Poland for more than 600 years. In every Polish church, there is a reproduction of the Black Madonna.

They were upholding a deeply Catholic tradition in Poland: Where people from across the country walk from their villages, towns and cities to visit the Black Madonna of Czestochowa in Czestochowa ...

In the small village of Nowy Dvor, some 20 miles from Warsaw, shirt-sleeved farmers chatted in the main square before the church, glancing toward the grey militia cars parked near by. In the dusty ...

Inside St. Mary of Czestochowa’s towering neo-Gothic church, images of the Black Madonna with child are everywhere. But among the church’s nine Virgin Mary images, the Virgin of Guadalupe also ...

Our Lady of Czestochowa is also known as the Black Madonna. Black Madonnas are Byzantine icons created mostly from the 12th-14th centuries in territories under the control of the Christian ...

Each day at 9 p.m., numerous Poles become spiritually united through the prayer unique for the shrine of Jasna Góra. Dec. 8 marks the 70th anniversary of praying the Call of Jasna Góra daily at Poland ...

In the least religious state in the United States, the Black Madonna adorns a 16-by-12-foot mural on a library wall. The mural was created by 26-year-old Haitian American artist Raphaella Brice.

The icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa has been intimately associated with Poland for more than 600 years, he said. In every Polish church, there is a reproduction of the Black Madonna.

The Queen of Pop Madonna sported a busty tiny black leotard as she recently posed for a seductive photoshoot on the toilet of her home with the caption "All dressed up and Nowhere to go ...