The National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) is set to hold its inaugural awards gala on Saturday, Oct. 5, in ...

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

Seattle Opera's "Jubilee" tells the story of early members of Fisk University's Jubilee Singers, who spread their influential music around the world.

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 ...

Many classic soul acts were defined by a spectacular falsetto voice. These are the six best falsetto in soul music.

"History in Our Hands" explores Black photojournalism in a locally focused way, reveals a bigger collaboration with one of ...

Kris Kristofferson, a Rhodes scholar with a deft writing style and rough charisma who became a country music superstar and an A-list Hollywood actor, has died.

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 ...

We are prepared to demonstrate why this is necessary and why this is appropriate," said Deena Sellers, Brophy's AP African ...

The influence of gospel music stretches far and wide, and the best gospel singers, too, cover a wider range of styles, as this list shows. The voices in this list might vary, but they’re never ...