Roosevelt Porter has performed with the Plainfield Symphony Orchestra for the last decade and acknowledges that Black musicians are underrepresented in classical music. Still, he says, they have ...

Every seat in the Missouri History Museum’s Lee Auditorium was filled Friday night for a gathering that honored the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by celebrating Blackness through the lens ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

Celebrate Black History Month 2026 across the Bay Area with live jazz, art exhibitions, theater, film screenings and ...

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) -As temperatures rise this summer, we’re turning up the volume on a different kind of heat — the cultural impact of Black music. June is African American Music ...

This post was updated May 22 at 9:43 p.m. Community and tradition inspire the performers of the Old-Time String Band and African American Music Ensemble. Each class of musical performers has shared a ...

Black Music Heritage Night, presented by Nissan, will take place as the Preds host the Buffalo Sabres, and the Music Heritage ...

A presentation of African American spirituals will be presented to the gifted students at Belpre Elementary School on ...

Music swelled inside the atrium of the California African American Museum on Monday as roughly 100 museum visitors held hands ...

The National Museum of African American Music hosts a free Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration with The BoykinZ, civil ...

This quick study on the impact that African Americans made and continue to make on America's musical landscape focuses on Elvis Presley. While Elvis was a phenomenal commercial success, there were ...