A darling in the art world, the Harlem native ... to her hometown in South Africa. Joshua White Nonetheless, indicative of the exploitation of Black women’s bodies, Sarah Baartman’s story ...

She was the first Black woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art and to be featured in the White House Collection (her piece, “Resurrection,” was unveiled there in ...

The work is a tribute to black women and their claim on the universal values—“love, hope, courage, freedom, dignity”—that White saw running through all his art. His favorite subjects were ...