Before LaFace Records and So So Def Recordings, there was Black Swan Records, a record company by Georgian Harry Pace that released music by Black artists for Black listeners.

With a sequel to Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” film’s release, Hollywood has finally made space for more stories about Black ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to ...

The New World Symphony launched “I Dream a World” in 2022 serves also as a platform to encourage dialogue about the enduring ...

No one has played a greater role in helping all Americans know the black past than Carter G. Woodson, the individual who ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

Victoria Christopher Murray's new historical novel, "Harlem Rhapsody," is a love letter to Harlem in the early 1920s and to ...

Below, the winners of the 2025 Grammys, updated live throughout the evening. Record of the Year “Now and Then,” the Beatles ...

In the 1920s, the organ played a role in a celebration of Black achievement. With the teaching of that history now under ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

A showcase of teens’ talent and creativity includes flower silhouettes, neon acrylic artwork inspired by the artist Derrick ...

Mwatabu Okantah was at Kent State when Black History Month was first celebrated. He reflects on the groundwork laid and why ...