A Smithsonian curator reflects back on the artistic legend, a "Renaissance man" with 28 Grammys to his name, who died Sunday ...

"It's the music I've always listened to ... Now I'm the ‘first African-American country singer.′ That's about the only thing that's changed," he told The Dallas Morning News in 1992.

African-American country singer Charley Pride (pictured), whose ... was not the first Black artist to make important contributions to country music, but he was a trailblazer who emerged during ...

The great folksong revival of the 1940s through 1960s made rural white and African American artists and their music favorites of audiences everywhere. While key figures associated with the American ...

On a chilly October night, the dimly lit lounge of Rock Steady — a popular Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Midtown — is notably empty. Staffers are preparing for what’s supposed to be a busy night ahead.

A kind of hallmark of non-American country music was these artists were kind of working ... cryptically named YouTube video that just said African country music. And it was the music video for ...

But no one who saw the South African ... country and continent already know — African music is the future, and Tyla is a genre-fluent ambassador. “I really want people to listen to the artists ...

In the audio clip below, the bass singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson sings "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", one of the best known examples of African American music from this time.

The album is the second installment of the multi-Grammy award-winning artist’s three-act project, encompassing a theme dedicated to the cultural roots of country music and her own familial Texan ...

The rousing overture has motifs taken from African American spirituals ... their voices and shared their music. By sharing the story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, and the beauty and meaning ...

and artists whose work enriches understanding of how African Americans and other African Diasporic communities have mutually shaped the social worlds they inhabit. Either a major or minor in African ...

The top nine videos will be selected for a round of voting through Nov. 6 and a grand prize winner will be announced Nov. 7 on Denver country music ... and MLK Jr. African-American Heritage ...