Evening Standard / Getty Images The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter dedicated a month to African American music ...

Whether one considers the African roots of instruments like the banjo and the fiddle, the folk songs of the deep south or the music of Black Appalachia, it becomes clear that Black folks have ...

Several incredible Black artists and musicians didn’t make it ... the group from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. Photo: Getty Images Al Pereira/Getty Images/Michaels Ochs Archives Photo ...

Her name is Susan Ross and for the past five decades, she has told the story of Black Atlanta through her thousands of images of politicians, artists, literary giants, community leaders ...

An online exhibition of artworks by Black artists from Africa and its Diaspora explores the misrepresentations of Black identity by A.I., which they say offers “a fragmentary, perhaps even ...

These are just a few examples among photographer Bud Smith’s vast collection of photos of Black musicians on display at the Tubman African American Museum’s “Thrillers!” exhibit.

(Getty Images) How ridiculous it was that Webb ... the Apollo Theater balcony was notorious for whites appropriating Black music forms. “Sometimes from the stage, I could see them up there ...

Photo Angela Deane-Drummond / Getty Images We probably don’t need to remind you that the music industry has historically discriminated against Black artists while simultaneously benefitting from ...

Five more artists were inducted Saturday to the Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame for the Downtown attraction's first anniversary. County officials honored prominent Black musicians with ties to ...