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An untitled painting sold for $110.5 million at auction Thursday marking the first painting by an American to sell at auction for more than $100 million. The piece from 1982 is the work of a then 21-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat whose paintings just two years earlier had been selling for less than $100. Tony Dokoupil reports.

His first canvases were the walls and subway cars of New York City. But from that humble beginning, Jean-Michel Basquiat would change art, music and hip-hop culture. Dana Jacobson takes a look at how his influence is still being felt.

Author and former Army Brigadier General Ty Seidule served his country for more than 30 years. He says he retired in 2020 so he could speak his mind in full. Jeff Glor spoke with Seidule about his new book "Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause." In the book, Seidule goes into detail about his upbringing and about some ugly parts of history this country has endured.

Read NY Best Selling Author Angie Thomas, "The Hate U Give" has a new book and it's the prequel, "Concrete Rose".

By Victor Omondi Belle da Costa Greene managed the Morgan Library for 43 years - a private librarian for financier J. Pierpont Morgan for 19 years, and later his son, Jack, and as the inaugural director of the Pierpont Morgan Library for 24 years. Greene not only helped Morgan to organize his legendary collection of...

The singer-songwriter just received 6 Grammy nominations for her latest album, "Future Nostalgia," a collection of dance hits released just as lockdowns began, which has become a soundtrack to her fans' isolation.

Singer and actress Leslie Uggams has been in show business for seven decades, since she was six. From appearances on musical variety shows and hosting her own series, to her roles in "Roots," "Empire," and the "Deadpool" movies, she talked with correspondent Mo Rocca about the responsibility she felt as one of the few African Americans regularly performing on early television, where there was no room for failure.

One of the country's hottest artists has co-founded NXTHVN, an arts program that aids emerging artists, curators and students.

Chef Marcus Samuelsson's new book, "The Rise," is his recipe for a national conversation on the contributions of Black chefs and Black cooking to the American table