From a tiny $800 loan, Berry Gordy turned Motown into the biggest African ... But music was his passion. He was cut out for it. A record label that signs mediocre artists will always be mediocre.
Without polemics Lewis presents women artists, from Edmonia Lewis to Alison Saar, as principal players in constructing an African American visual arts legacy. Here Lewis sufficiently defines African ...
A brand-new festival celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop music is coming to Ohio State Saturday. Ohio State’s School of Music and Department of African American and African Studies are set to ...
At an upcoming exhibition, the Smithsonian museum will display works by the two boundary-breaking artists for the first time Sarah Kuta The prolific American actor, who died on September 9 ...
Essays and images on blues, jazz, spirituals, gospel, ragtime, civil rights songs, rhythm and blues, hip hop and rap and other forms of African American musical expression. Provided by Alexander ...