To Be Young, Gifted and Black' was one of the biggest beacons Nina Simone offered the civil rights movement, but what was the ...

For decades, the FBI has kept a close eye on Black musicians and other artists they saw as a threat to the status quo.

Ron T. Young. Black people have long used music as a form of resistance and a tool for change in America. From spirituals that were sung during enslavement to the freedom songs of the Civil Rights ...

Known as Mama Afrika, her music, which was critical of apartheid, became popular in the United States during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. ... Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone.

Kendrick Lamar, Ledisi and others are creating the soundtrack for this cultural inflection point and for the legacy of ...

The Juneteenth and Jazz Community Celebration will be held at the Eiteljorg Museum on Saturday, June 21, featuring jazz ...

The Irish singer-songwriter played a sold-out American Family Insurance Amphitheater in Milwaukee June 20 for about 23,000 people.

The best documentaries—from Paris is Burning to My Octopus Teacher—will raise your consciousness and expand your heart ...

Ahead, discover 31 documentaries that remind us that the real world is still cinema’s richest terrain.

Hozier is making his rounds on the festival circuit ahead of his headlining Outside Lands set in August and is using his ...

This week: the Black Arts Movement’s radical aesthetics, Gatsby boat tours, advice columns, Hot Girls for Zohran, Gen Z dumps glitter on ICE, and much more.