Drums sounded throughout the Go-Go Museum in Washington, DC as bands Colombia Negra and Black Alley conversed in a rhythmic, ...

Gospel music has been a staple of worship in Wichita Falls for generations, with church services featuring gospel music every ...

The Odunde Festival celebrates 50 years in Philly on Sunday, June 8, with live music, African and Caribbean food, a river ...

Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

Psychiatry.org notes just one-third of African American adults requiring mental healthcare receive care. For white American adults, that number is closer to one in two. African Americans face a ...

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music from June 5–8, with a program that celebrates ...

Early American banjo music is Black music, developed by enslaved Africans and rooted in Black culture through the early 1800s ...

“The Sacred Harp” is still sung in its hollow square formation. Singers organize into four voice parts: treble, alto, tenor and bass. Each group takes a side, facing an opening in the center where a ...