Quiltmaking among African-Americans has a richly textured history. In a new book called “Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook” (MacFarland & Co., 260 pages, $38.50), author Kyra E.

SAN ANTONIO — Quilts of family, black leaders, and names of those no longer with us line the walls at Central Library and Our Lady of the Lake University. "Black women have been quilting forever," ...

SAN ANTONIO — Every second Saturday of the month at the Carver Library, you'll find a group of women with needles and thread in hand. They're members of the African American Quilt Circle of San ...

UC Berkeley Art Museum was recently gifted the world’s largest collection of this type of art, all of it created by black women. Much like certain perspectives have historically been shut out from the ...

Dot Guthrie and Charles Whitesides stand next to the Gaston County Business Pioneers Quilt on display at the African American Museum of History & Culture at Loray Mill in Gastonia Tuesday afternoon, ...

Since slavery days, generations of women in tiny Gee’s Bend, Ala., have stitched the flavor of their isolated community into quilts remarkable for their bold, improvisational designs. The quilts are ...

FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) - Books weren't the only things visitors were able to check out the last few days at a popular Mid-Michigan library. The African American Quilting Guild just wrapped up its 34th ...

SUNDERLAND — The town paid tribute to one of Sunderland’s most famous residents Monday night, as the Select Board accepted a quilt sewn by local artisans in honor of poet Lucy Terry Prince, whose ...

A Hempstead woman who uses history and her African American heritage as inspiration for her art is now stitching together a quilt honoring local women and other trailblazers who've played major roles ...