Program at Naper Settlement explores how messages conveyed through quilts guided runaway slaves through the Underground ...

Quilts and quilting represent one of the most fascinating elements of the slavery period in U.S. history. Secret symbols in quilts hand-stitched by slaves guided conductors on the Underground Railroad ...

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) – A group of second graders in Isle of Wight County used their creativity to honor Black History Month. The students at Hardy Elementary School created a Freedom Quilt ...

As he put together an exhibit of ceramic sculptures, quilts and paintings for Black History Month, art student Sean Beard of Cal State Northridge drew on his roots. “Mother Weep No More” at the campus ...

The exhibition “Quilts of Gee’s Bend,” which appeared at the High Museum of Art in 2006, featured 60 colorful, geometrically designed quilts hand-stitched by the direct descendants of slaves living in ...

WASHINGTON — A one-day installation on the National Mall brought this year’s WorldPride theme — “the fabric of freedom” — to life, as hundreds of hand-stitched quilt panels created by trans artists ...

Stitched by 1,000 artists, this Washington, D.C. quilt monument stands up for trans rights ahead of a pivotal court battle. The American Civil Liberties Union's Freedom to Be Monument of quilts ...

Two Navy veterans received Quilts of Valor Saturday morning during a presentation at the Lindale Mall, recognized by the Freedom Stitchers of Iowa.