Nine people died when a Learjet 60 crashed in Palm Beach County, Florida, on November 1. Federal investigators are examining the aircraft's final minutes, including crew reports of icing and turbulence and indications that parts of the jet may have separated before impact. No probable cause has been announced.
Read MoreTwenty-five years after Michael Richards died in the September 11 attacks, his sculpture Free F’All continues to ask difficult questions about Black freedom and sacrifice. The Brooklyn Museum’s fall presentation brings renewed attention to a work made in 1997, before the loss that would so profoundly shape the way audiences encounter its maker.
Read MoreThe Smithsonian’s What a Dream Can Do offers a closer look at the objects, families and museum workers who keep Black American history visible.
Read MoreDanielle Mckinney’s upcoming New Orleans exhibition asks what a portrait can reveal without surrendering its subject’s privacy.
Read MoreJavits Frimpong was 15. His death has brought a Bronx community together in grief and support for his family.
Read MoreHe says he had paid his fare. His encounter with MTA fare inspectors ended with allegations of assault, reported injuries and questions that the agency should not be allowed to brush aside.
Read MoreThe National Association of Black Military Women marked its 50th anniversary with a gathering dedicated to preserving history and recognizing the contributions of Black women in military service. Held October 8–11, 2026, at Harborside Hotel in Oxon Hill, Maryland, the celebration carried the theme “Rooted in Legacy, Rising in Sisterhood.”
Read MoreKeith Yamashita’s “What Season Is It, America?” was scheduled to bring poetry, photography and conversation to the Brooklyn Museum from October 21–25. This introduction examines the announced project, not eyewitness observations.
Read MoreThe Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is preparing to put its own collecting decisions on display. Announced October 22, “New & Now: A Decade Building the National Collection of African Art” opens November 6, inviting visitors to consider how a national collection grows and whose stories that growth makes visible.
Read MoreIbrahim Mahama’s The Harvest Season opened at Fondation Cartier on October 22, bringing Ghanaian history, artistic collaboration and the possibilities of cultural institutions into focus. The Paris exhibition runs through February 28, 2027.
Read MoreAt MoMA, The Surrealist Book turns the familiar bound volume into a place for artistic rebellion.
Read MoreMariko Mori’s All That Shines opens October 31 at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, tracing three decades of art that brings technology, spirituality and human connection into the same space.
Read MoreFederal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on October 12, just 22 days before the November 3 election in which she is seeking another term. The search has put a familiar democratic concern back in focus: how federal law enforcement exercises its power when voters are about to choose their representatives.
Read MoreAdam Pendleton’s Some Wild Kind of Language opened at Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum on October 10. Running through January 17, 2027, the exhibition brings eleven paintings and eight large-scale drawings into a museum where the setting becomes part of the conversation.
Read MoreCommunity leaders and immigration advocates took to the microphones after the Marble Hill shooting, joining calls for answers and accountability. The Facebook video below captures their public response as demands to release evidence and abolish ICE grew.
Read MoreNavanethem “Navi” Pillay has won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her work advancing peace and international law. Announced on October 9, the award recognizes a South African jurist whose career connects the struggle against apartheid with the development of international justice.
Read MoreAuthorities have arrested Angel Carrasco in connection with the death of Nathaly Ramirez, a 23-year-old Bronx mother who fell from a 15th-floor balcony while holding her infant daughter. The child survived and remained hospitalized Thursday, October 8.
Read MoreThe Studio Museum in Harlem has fresh room for becoming. Opened October 1, A sustained becoming brings together Derriann Pharr, Simonette Quamina, and Taylor Simmons, the first artists in residence in its new building. Their different approaches to the figure give the institution’s next chapter a human scale.
Read MoreNolan Wells’ family is renewing its push for a federal investigation after a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict anyone in his death. At an October 5 news conference in Inglewood, California, his parents and attorney Ben Crump called for another examination of the case that has drawn months of public scrutiny.
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