With “Liner Notes ... by Black women — among them Maureen Mahon, Danyel Smith and Clover Hope — that elucidate the central role that Black women artists have played in American music.

The three-part portrait explores the life and music of the revered and influential ... Line-drawing illustrations and black-and-white reenactments bring key childhood memories to the screen.

The music video offsets black-and-white footage of 20th-century protests ... inspiring covers by Nina Simone and Odetta. In the liner notes to "Biograph," the singer explained to Cameron Crowe ...