King James Britt, a long-time composer, producer, and performer, is part of the Juneteenth Jubilee celebration at the San ...

Johnson, a pioneering Black musician born in Philadelphia in 1792, was the first African American composer to publish sheet ...

Explore how 9 influential Black musicians including Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson, and Prince changed music history ...

Early American banjo music is Black music, developed by enslaved Africans and rooted in Black culture through the early 1800s ...

The Marshall L. Davis Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center will present “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance highlighting the roots of African rhythms in American tap dance.

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New ...

I was already excited to see a vampire movie focusing on Black characters in the South, but what shocked me was the subplot of the complicated relationship between African Americans and Christianity.

“I let my spirit move me through the different phases ... trajectory of how Delta blues is at the seat of modern Black American music. Your own career spans a wide breadth of American music.

Her first three novels all explored different periods of Black history, from 1850s Ohio to 1970s Alabama. “When I am in the archives, I feel a sense of connection. It’s almost spiritual ...

They hope to make it a center for food, libations, blues music, and merrymaking for Black folks in the segregated ... bear the influence of African American spirituals. (Sammie has a background ...

However, if the people who pushed back against rock ‘n’ roll on religious grounds had listened more closely to some of the music coming ... “After Forever” by Black Sabbath.

Roughly seven-in-ten members of historically Black Protestant churches (72% ... unaffiliated adults are much less likely to say they listen to music for spiritual reasons. Four-in-ten Americans say ...