By Safire R. Sostre ·Updated June 2, 2022
Renowned historian, curator, author, educator, and artist Samella Lewis, whose writing and activism helped shape Black art history, passed away on May 27. She was 99 years old.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Lewis died from kidney failure at a hospital in Torrance, California. Her death was confirmed by her younger son, Claude.
The daughter of a farmer and a seamstress, Samella Sanders was
