Dr. Samantha Ege, a researcher, musicologist, concert pianist and author, joined Jewell Hillery on Sunday’s WGN Weekend ...

Looking at the importance of blues pioneer Ma Rainey, who pioneered LGBTQ+ representation in music during the 1920s through ...

Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues ...

Racism was not addressed in Jean-Marie Salem's family growing up. It wasn't until she found her birth family that she felt ...

But despite all his preparation, Devereux was skeptical when he first saw an ad for what was billed as Blues Brothers Con — a daylong gathering and concert for fans of the music side project started ...

In his book Rising From the Rails, Larry Tye told the story of the Pullman train porters who helped open up the middle class to Black Americans and transported jazz and blues musicians to gigs across ...

FINE artist Tatenda Melody Tichapondwa’s name might be new in the mainstream world of creations. However, through her artifacts she is showing huge potential and a thriving career ahead.

Likewise, a 2022 cohort study using data from 498,043 men and women ages 40 to 69 between 2006 and 2010 in the United Kingdom looked at black tea’s effect. Researchers found that drinking 2 or ...

White and Black women have joined together to power progressive causes — from abolition to civil rights — but it’s a tenuous alliance. By Nikole Hannah-Jones Nikole Hannah-Jones is a ...

It’s especially relevant as we dive into the lives of some of the most famous older Black actresses, singers, writers and activists. These women of color accomplished ... a Rhythm and Blues Foundation ...

ATLANTA — Taylor Mills never imagined she would cast her first ballot in a presidential election for a Black woman. A theater and performance major at Spelman College in Atlanta, Mills saw her ...