Chenier came to be known as the King of Zydeco. He toured Europe; won a Grammy for his 1982 album, I’m Here! ; performed at ...

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In his largest ever American institutional show, at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the nonagenarian painter is an unparalleled ...

Indianapolis celebrates Juneteenth while honoring local Black history and navigating political tensions around diversity.

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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — By the time the drumming and dancing starts Thursday, an organization that promotes African American ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and ...

In her new book “Make It Ours,” Robin Givhan examines the late Virgil Abloh’s rise from Chicago streetwear to a defining ...

In three works presented at the festival, protagonists throw their bodies into the fight and dance with depth and urgency.

In 1979, the Nebraska Legislature recognized the museum's fledgling collection as the official collection of the state.