Solange reimagines the Eldorado Ballroom in Houston with a six-part series honoring Black art, music, and cultural legacy.

In addition to featuring the history of slavery, Reconstruction and Civil Rights, the permanent collection includes an exhibit of African American music from the arrival of the first Africans to ...

Our staff's favorite songs from a year that confirmed that hip-hop and R&B were now at top 40's center, but also had plenty ...

Easter Sunday is quickly approaching and Oklahoma native Carrie Underwood is teaming up with her "American Idol" team to present a special for the holiday. On April 20, "American Idol" will ...

Historian Ludovic Tournès explains how differing attitudes to jazz in the United States and Europe meant that many African American musicians were keen to pursue their careers in Paris ...

Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole. [Actor 1] Andre 3000 for sure embodied it. [Actor 2] Jack Johnson. The honorary ...

Most estimates of postwar killings of African-Americans amount to about 4,000 public lynchings committed between 1877 and 1968. But what about those who were assassinated or disappeared before ...

Sarah Polley talks her cameo in 'The Studio' and the legacies of 'Take This Waltz' and Alice Munro, whom she adapted for ...

A cacophony of sound bursts through the lips of SMU’s upper-level performers, piercing the steel doors of classroom B430 in ...

Ted Aliotta was a Chicago-area musician for 60 years, performing in bands including the Maybes, the Fabtones and the Cave ...

Houston's Wonky Power has offered its recording studio as a collaboration space for musicians - most notably the legendary Houston rap group the Geto Boys. What founders Mario and Elizabeth Rodriguez ...

As the National Museum of African American History and Culture awaits construction of its bronze-tinted showcase building, slated to open in 2015 on the National Mall, its collection is taking ...