In honour of Black History Month, CBC Music presents 12 amazing, unsung music ... Smith was the ultimate blues trailblazer: in 1920 she became the first African-American to make a vocal blues ...

It has roots deeply embedded in the Black experience. Blues has long been a powerful expression of the struggles, joys and ...

Then, one day about five years ago, Malley stumbled across some research that traced the roots of American blues music back to West African Muslim slaves. His discovery led Malley to imagine a ...

asked about the spate of new scholarship on the subject of Islam and African Americans. "You can hear (influences of Islam) in even the earliest days of American blues music. What you've gotten ...