Green Beans millie jackson A work of art partly

A work of art partly inspired by Strange Fruit by Nina Simone

Kevin "WAK" Williams' If This World Were Mine(Male) is a depiction of a father with a globe in his hand passing it to a curious child

Monica Stewart's Inner Peace is a piece depicting a black woman half draped in an orange cover sleeping peacefully on a brown couch

All We Need by Fred Mathews is an African-American work of art of a couple comforting each other while the man carries a knapsack with only the Bible inside of it

Green Beans millie jackson A work of art partlyFrom a new series by Kadir Nelson called "The African American" series, the artist pays homage to the African men and women cast into slavery bringing with them age old African traditions and wisdom passed down from generation to generation. Here, the age old ritual of snapping green beans and readying them for last meal of the day is demonstrated by a woman proudly sitting on the front steps of her humble whitewashed home, snapping freshly washed