It was June of 2018 that I reported that Black Dots music was supersizing on Grant Street, from a little shopfront down the road. This was a big deal from where the vinyl record business started ...

We last spoke to pianist and Amplify co-host Lara Downes in March, when she announced her Rising Sun Music project ... and revivify classical works by Black artists. "It gets very frustrating ...

The latest vinyl purveyor to enter the fray is owner/proprietor Josh Smith who opened up Black Dots (collection of early songs recorded by Bad Brains) at the corner of Grant Street and Lafayette ...

She made history in 1933. She was the first Black female composer ever performed by a major symphony orchestra, with the Chicago Symphony at the World's Fair. And she just had ambitions that ...

Artist Deborah Willis made an installation, “Face the Rising Sun,” directly referencing Johnson’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” The piece is a wall filled with tintype portraits of Black Americans of ...