When I was invited to the release of Sydney Salmon’s new album one Friday afternoon at the African Jazz Village inside the Ghion Hotel, I was unsure what ...

If you're looking to support someone that isn't a big-name coffee brand, these smaller, black-owned businesses are sure to fill up your cup.

After all her previous love stories, 2025 will always be remembered as the year Taylor Swift got engaged. This song, from her latest album The Life of a Showgirl, reimagines Shakespeare's tragic ...

Jones was no stranger to Grammy trophies, winning a total of 28 out of his staggering 80 nominations. This photo is from the ...

Imagine throwing a group of creative people together in one place and giving them one day to come up with as many songs as ...

The hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged—she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled ...

It has been a magnificent year for Black Theater. (By the way, you can still experience theater at exceptional levels by getting tickets to “ Ragtime ” at Lincoln Center. That’s a Broadway musical at ...

In that small anecdote sits the entire emotional reality of the present. The thinning of contact, the erosion of human warmth ...

While music-loving tourists don't necessarily flock to Frenchmen Street to hear modern jazz, if they're lucky and curious ...

In an era where music charts are dominated by electronic beats and auto-tuned vocals, one young man is boldly swimming against the tide — armed not with software, but with a saxophone and an ...

Leo Larratt is a guitarist originally from Newcastle, Australia. In Australia, he worked with and was mentored by some of the country's best musicians, including Warwick Alder, Carl Dewhurst, Craig ...

The late, great Fela Kuti is known as the "Black President" for his role as both a musical and a political leader. Now he has become the first African artist to get this Grammy honor.