In 2025, Black women in music aren’t just setting beauty trends—they’re reshaping the narrative entirely. Whether opera singers, rappers, or genre-blurring innovators, today’s artists are ...

They have become the first Black duo ever nominated for country music’s esteemed ACM and CMA Awards at a time that the genre grapples with inclusivity. When: 7:30 p.m. June 27-28 ...

Lizzo said she is influenced by Black music from the 1970s and ’80s, calling her own work “funky, soulful, feel-good music.” In an interview last month with Entertainment Weekly, Lizzo ...

In ‘Ordinary Notes,’ Christina Sharpe reflects on a Black freedom grounded in beauty and possibility despite white supremacist violence and degradation By Walton Muyumba Globe Correspondent ...

But black metal has expanded and diversified, so much so that the genre’s latest success story, the one-man band Blackbraid, hails from the Adirondacks and draws on its founder’s Native ...

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