When most people imagine modern architecture, names like Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Charles and Ray Eames come to mind; typically, it's a white man (or, sometimes, the rare white woman). Their ...

James Silcott made history as the first Black project architect for Los Angeles County and UCLA. He won a roughly $1 million settlement from the county in 1984 after alleging workplace discrimination.

Atlanta’s Black architects built on success and sacrifice to create or renovate some of the city’s most iconic public structures. Architect William Stanley founded Stanley Love-Stanley, P.C. with his ...

In an era of deep-seated racial segregation and professional exclusion, trailblazing Black architects defied immense odds to design some of America’s most enduring structures. From the halls of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – To Albert Chao, it’s a house of stories — stories of a Black architect whose work isn’t celebrated enough. Chao should know. He had never heard of Robert Traynham Coles until he moved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. James E. Silcott, a trailblazing Los Angeles architect who, thanks to many gifts to his alma mater, Howard University, became the ...