The National Museum of African American Music, or NMAAM, is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many ...
April Eaton sits down with Dion Brown. President and CEO of the National Museum of African American Music, and Noelle Taylor, ...
Hosting a holiday event that reflects African American culture can make the gathering feel even more special and meaningful.
A Smithsonian curator reflects back on the artistic legend, a "Renaissance man" with 28 Grammys to his name, who died Sunday ...
We take a look at the phenomenal Phil Schaap Jazz Collection, recently arrived at the university’s Blair School of Music, and ...
An exhibit on “The Negro Motorist Green Book,” a pre-civil rights guidebook for African American families, is now on display ...
Carter's political and cultural impact will be studied in a new college course coming to Yale University next year.
The legendary American musician Quincy Jones, a revolutionary producer who changed African American music, died at the age of ...
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 ...
This will be her first course centred solely on Beyonce, who has won 32 Grammy awards and achieved a rare level of political ...
The course was developed by Daphne Brooks, professor of African American Studies, who will examine Beyonce’s cultural and ...