Erskine Hawkins, Sun Ra and Lionel Hampton are notable jazz musicians that were born and raised in Birmingham. The history of jazz in Birmingham is often overlooked due to artists ...

Debora Wondercheck was trying to process scenes of civil unrest in 2021 when she came up with “Gospel Voices of OC,” a ...

Gary Burke looked on proudly in his Civil War-era U.S. Colored Troops uniform as Juneteenth festivities unfolded at the ...

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dyana Williams, veteran radio and ...

For generations, Black musicians have shaped American culture while battling an industry that often denied them fair ...

MoPop's Associate Curator Adeerya Johnson takes Soundside on a guided tour through their new exhibit "Never Turn Back: Echoes of African American Music" ...

Rhiannon Giddens is the the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer who played banjo and viola on Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” ...

Galveston celebrates the 160th Juneteenth anniversary with a week of events honoring emancipation and African American ...

Charles Burrell, an American classical and jazz bass player known as being the first African American to be a member of a ...

The bassist played with jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, breaking barriers at the Denver and San Francisco ...

Bradley Simmons, instructor of West African percussion at Duke University for nearly three decades, died at 72 on May 22.

Gastonia’s African American Museum of History and Culture is hosting several free summer programs for families in coming ...