The BriefJune is Black Music Month.Tampa Bay has some amazing musical connections to Black music history."Central Avenue was ...

King James Britt, a long-time composer, producer, and performer, is part of the Juneteenth Jubilee celebration at the San ...

Underneath oak trees and Spanish moss from Texas to the Carolina coasts, the remains of Black Americans lay in unmarked ...

When news broke that Pope Leo XIV had Black and Creole ancestry, the internet practically collapsed. How could this white man be so ... She first learned of her Black roots in 1937, according ...

A buzzy new exhibition on Black dandyism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York features prominent Baltimoreans like ...

But to fixate only on that moment of massive mainstream attention is to miss the true priorities of the movement to reclaim the Black roots of folk ... the exclusively white domain it was made ...

Interestingly, while Pope Leo XIV’s mother, Mildred Martinez Prevost, is listed as white on her birth ... confirmed the family’s Haitian roots and connections to New Orleans.

But the Black iteration emerged under different conditions, and with higher stakes. In the antebellum South, freedmen in fine coats and polished shoes unsettled the white gaze because their style ...

The results were announced with white smoke ... and Spanish roots. According to the U.S. Census, Prevost's mother, the late Mildred Martinez, was the mixed-race daughter of Black property owners ...

“Our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, has Creole of color roots from New Orleans on his ... and a hard distinction made between Black and White people. These conditions could explain the family ...