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An interview is presented with African American artist, Jon Onye Lockard. Topics discussed include inspiration of Lockard from painting signs and billboards to drawing of "A Dream Deferred"; information on Obleton Sign Company in the U.S.; and limitations in internal or external, for being a black artist.

The article offers information on the contribution of chairman Jeff Donaldson on the Black art in the Howard University Department of Art. Topics discussed include activity of Donaldson in hiring African Diaspora scholar-artists; hiring of international faculty by Donaldson to initiate the Annual Faculty Exhibitions; and inheritance of Dr. Alain Locke's vast collection of African art in 1955 by the Department of Art.

The article offers information on arts in Detroit, Michigan. Topics discussed include recognition of power of public art by private business community; popping up of murals in high profile locations downtown with masterpieces; and contribution of black artists Sydney G. James and Tylonn Sawyer for arts in Detoit. It also mention about the challenges faced by the artists such as lack of art collectors from the commercial art galleries. It also mention about the works of Waleed Johnson.

An interview with video artist Jefferson Pinder is presented who talks about his artworks. Topics discussed include his expression of racial factor of being an African-American in his paintings, his views on American painter Raymond Saunders for his of racial politics, his explanation of an artist's freedom to choose his working style, and his performance "Ben-Hu" in which black men are working on a rowing machine.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of organizing an art exhibition which featured black artists students from Yale University such as Awol Erizku, Genevieve Gaignard, Joseph Buckley, Devan Shimoyama, and Aaron Fowler.

Focuses on the artistic style of emerging black artists. Address of contemporary issues; Combination of social and aesthetic ideas; Exploration of the concept of time and space; Decline of interest on identity representation in art; Incorporation of collage, dance, performance, and video; Influence of technological innovations.

Investigates the works of black artists Stan Douglas, Lorna Simpson, and Steve McQueen. Analysis of the history of television and cinema; Media used to represent the different modes for the projection and reception of images and sounds; Focus of Simpson on a group of characters in ambiguous fictional narratives; Effect of raw immediacy produced by McQueen's approach.

Opinion. Discusses black artists in the United States during the 1960s. What shocked the artists; Depiction of the author's painting `Behold They Son'; Reason the painting was done; Creation of the painting `Of Thee I Weep.'

The author discusses the concepts of postblack, which encompasses art meant to focus on the black experience which ignoring race and post race, a theory that concludes the United States has transcended racial inequality, in contemporary art. He discusses the 2001 exhibition "Freestyle" at the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York City, which introduced the concept of postblack.

The article offers information on art in Detroit, Michigan. Topics discussed include Detroit as history of former manufacturing capital, a musical capital and last stop before Canada on the underground railroad; contribution of creative community and black artists in the Charles H. Wright Museum, Dabl’s Gallery and Detroit Institute of Arts; and talented people who were making the city hotbed of creative activity.