Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The “Heritage Quilt” shines a light on a Black and Creole community in southwest Louisiana Top 3 playlist Black people have ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — A group of Hampton Roads quilt makers is using needle and thread to honor the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. At the Chesapeake Central Library, 100 quilts are on display, ...

After six years, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) is finally shining a spotlight on the transformative gift of over 3,000 African American quilts it received from the late ...

The African American Quilt Circle of San Antonio is preserving personal, political, and historical narratives through the ancestral practice of quiltmaking. “There’s a determination not to tell the ...

If it has to do with quilting, there’s a good chance Judy Howard can tell you about it. Since 1976 Howard has owned and operated Buckboard Antiques and Quilts in Oklahoma City. Howard took a class ...

ENID, Okla. — When you think of quilts, nostalgia usually sets in and you start down memory lane about your mother, grandmother, aunt or a loved one who used to make them and the memories stitched ...

PADUCAH, Ky. (KFVS) - The National Quilt Museum is hosting Quilt Documentation Days on September 12 & 13. Quilt owners will be able to learn more about the quilts from quilt appraiser and historian ...

A new book accompanied by an exhibition in Williamsburg, Va., shows that quilts tell us much about U.S. history. Quilts aren’t just for warmth. As historical documents, for example, they show the ways ...

Quilts memorializing lynching victims in Alachua County are on display at the Matheson History Museum. The Alachua County Community Remembrance Project unveiled the quilts during a program on January ...

Black people have traditionally used quilts to tell their stories. Harriett Powers, for example, born into slavery in 1837, created the much-lauded “Bible Quilt” that hangs in the National Museum of ...