Music, connection, and pure soulful energy reflecting on Black queer survival, identity, resistance and liberation.

“Truth To Power” spotlights the duality at the heart of the BAJC project, which is that it’s a group intended to glorify Black artists and stand proudly for high-level acoustic ...

A young Black TikToker has a viral post saying ... a little peace instead of protest has brought us to jazz music and its universal power to unite. That unity did not come without a struggle ...

His latest project, HBO’s South to Black Power, focuses on writer and commentator Charles ... Pollard underwent a transformative shift as he discovered a passion for jazz through a childhood friend.

Sandra Izsadore influenced Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti during his 1969 U.S. visit. While not its creator, her impact on the genre ...

These are by all means standards within Black music and hip-hop culture ... nobody showed the power of hip-hop as an elevator of jazz music forms quite like The Roots. The world’s most well ...

Marsalis and Stevenson have debuted “Freedom, Justice and Hope,” their live performance album of historic jazz records created to protest racial injustice. NEW YORK (AP) — Black music ...

From Nelson Mandela to Muhammad Ali and the so-called Grandassa Models, Brathwaite's work embraced Black power and beauty ... the African Jazz Art Society & Studio. Born Ronald Brathwaite in ...

But jazz wasn’t just mixing musical genres—it also mixed races. Decades before Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, Black musicians were fighting discrimination and ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The Peacock Café in downtown Toledo is honoring Black History Month and the contributions of Black Americans through a series of jazz and soul performances. Beginning Feb. 20 and ...