A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's ...

While many African artists have been able to ride the wave of Afrobeats’ international popularity, some musicians are now ...

The African oral tradition of work chanting ... Meanwhile, the blues and the electric guitar would pave the way for Black American musicians to invent rock ‘n’ roll. By the 1970s, Black ...

Lauterbach (The Chitlin’ Circuit) spotlights innovative Black musicians who influenced a young Elvis in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Among them were Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, who wrote and ...

An African American composer and pianist known as one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century, Thomas Wiggins (1849-1908) was blind from birth and likely autistic. Although born into slavery ...

Pianist Jon Nakamatsu returns to Waco, 30 years later, to play Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and its “incredible ...

Shortly after arriving in New York City in 1965, beginning a decades-long exile from apartheid-era South Africa, pianist Abdullah Ibrahim formed an unusual trio. Instead of the usual piano, bass, and ...

For actor John David Washington, the son of double Oscar-winner Denzel, new Netflix movie The Piano Lesson is a family affair ...

With the help of a strong ensemble cast, Malcolm Washington pushes the cinematic potential of Wilson’s 1930s Pittsburgh play.

Of late Afro-beats seems to have changed that perception. Africans are now coming on board with their own traditional rhythms ...

Samuel L. Jackson's return to "The Piano Lesson" helps transform August Wilson's play into a contemporary cinematic ...

Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century” zeroes in on a far less charted corner of Black history than that of ...