Destinee Ross-Sutton Is Making Sure Black Artists Get Royalties If Their Works Resell

No matter how much a work sells at auction, visual artists won't get paid a single dime if their pieces are sold in the secondary market. Artists have long sought royalties for their works when buyers decide to resell them, even taking legal action to demand payment. Take seminal artist Robert Rauschenberg, for example, who spent several years -- starting in 1973 -- lobbying Congress to get royalties for artists when their works sold later down the line, but his efforts fell short. It wasn't unt...