Tetrarch guitarist Diamond Rowe has just become the first African American woman in heavy music to have her own signature ...

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 ...

Sarasota Orchestra has announced six exhibitions at the Orchestra's Harmony Gallery to take place during the 2024-2025 season ...

From the creation of the Liberty Bell in the 1750s to the world-famous Philadelphia Sound soul music of the 1960s and ’70s, ...

Many Black artists were denied ‘compensation, control and credit for their creations,’ says legal scholar Kevin Greene.

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 ...

Stonebwoy: "As an African I can relate to anything Black outside of Africa" ...

Music’s in the air, and there’s painting and sculpture in imaginative variety as an art museum gives rare treatment to an ephemeral medium.