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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

Singer Beyonce brought the "Rodeo Chitlin Circuit" to London as she kicked off the European leg of her "Cowboy Carter" tour, ...

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

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.

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 ...