Black memorabilia is one of the most provocative and fastest-growing categories of collecting in America. Assistant curator Taylor Bythewood-Porter and Gail Deculus-Johnson, a collector and the owner of Sable Images, discuss how these controversial and uncensored depictions shaped African American experiences, as well as the value of these objects today.

The Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC) and the Los Angeles Times (LA Times) invite you to join journalists, scholars, activists and community leaders in a discussion at the Natural History Museum (NHM) about nuclear contamination and climate change in the Marshall Islands, a Pacific nation spread across more than 800,000 square miles […]

Pioneering contemporary artist Melvin Edwards joins LA Blacksmith curator jill moniz in a discussion of the artist’s work. Edwards employs metalwork and abstraction to invoke social injustice and the African American experience, as evidenced in his work My Turn to Burn—a response to the 1965 Watts Rebellion—which is currently on display at CAAM.