Rosa Parks: First Statue of African-American Female to Grace Capitol Feb. 27, 2013 -- intro: Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer, made history again today by becoming the first African American woman ...

History is often taught as if serious art followed a single European arc—from classical Greek sculpture to Renaissance ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal inaugurated its giant "African Renaissance" monument on Saturday, brushing aside complaints that the $28 million personal project of President Abdoulaye Wade was a waste of ...

"The head is more than the center of the brain and thought; it is the place where the soul lives and must be protected," the artist says.

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All in The statues can be gargantuan -- the African Renaissance Monument in Dakar is nearly 40 meters high (160 feet). They commemorate liberation heroes and independence movements and resemble the ...