Like most music, the blues was not a sudden spontaneous inspiration. Rather, it is a progression of musical styles that ...

It is also home to something quite singular: the National Black Theatre (NBT), an institution first established in Harlem in ...

After writing New Jack Swing hits and working with Michael Jackson in the 1980s, he set out to record the music he’d always ...

The below list of the Top 50 Hard Rock Songs of the '70s, voted on by UCR staff, reads like the ultimate classic rock radio ...

The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter ...

Tazewell Thompson's "Jubilee," about Fisk University's Jubilee Singers, has its world premiere at Seattle Opera.

An Afromodernism festival at the New York Philharmonic shines a light on Black artists, who are vastly underrepresented in ...

Who’s got time for poems when the world’s on fire?” asks Aja Monet in the heart-achingly beautiful and gut-wrenchingly honest ...

As hard as some try to argue otherwise, researchers and scientists have proven without a shadow of a doubt that all human ...

Jones, New Orleans-based poet Carolyn Hembree, and local writers including Brooke Champagne, John Giggie, and writers from Pure Products and the Black Warrior ... local blues artist who's played ...

She brought gospel blues to the masses, crooning versions of “Take My ... with Houston receiving acclaim for her raw and real ...

A solo exhibition of the poet and visual artist Ted Joans is a mostly fitting tribute to an artistic visionary.