23 Black designers dreamed up rooms for this fantastical ... guest suite — which is the only room on the third floor of the Obsidian House — as "a penthouse suite designed for mature audiences ...

black photographers and other individuals. | Photo Courtesy of Chicago Defender Share Angela Ford of Washington Park, founder of The Obsidian Collection, grew up listening to the stories.

Obsidian plans to publish photos from more archives in the coming months. “There is no better photo record of the African-American community than the photos that were taken by the black press ac ...

“So, we’ve got pictures of M.L.K. laughing, smiling, touching people—it’s not just the ‘We Shall Overcome’ thing. The Black ... currency. “Obsidian is really building what we believe ...