Juneteenth is being celebrated around central Ohio in multiple ways. Here is your guide to celebrating America's second Independence Day.

Debora Wondercheck was trying to process scenes of civil unrest in 2021 when she came up with “Gospel Voices of OC,” a ...

Bradley Simmons, instructor of West African percussion at Duke University for nearly three decades, died at 72 on May 22.

WELL, JUNE IS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC APPRECIATION MONTH, AND IT’S TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND HONOR THE CONTRIBUTION BLACK ...

Rhiannon Giddens is the the Pulitzer Prize-winning opera composer who played banjo and viola on Beyonce’s “Cowboy Carter” ...

WKAR joins the City of East Lansing for the 29th annual Summer Solstice Jazz Festival, a free, family-friendly celebration of ...

Discover 7 essential Black Music Month festivals this June celebrating jazz, gospel, hip-hop and R&B across North Carolina, ...

Listen to live music and poetry, learning about Black history and support Black culture in celebration of Juneteenth in ...

A jazz funeral celebrates the return and remembrance of 19 African American individuals taken for racial pseudoscience over ...

Jazz is more than music; it’s a living thread of the African American experience and its enduring impact on American culture." Singleton, a native of Awendaw, S.C., began his musical journey at ...

A related tradition appeared in African-American neighborhoods by ... Swing era of the 1930s and 1940s when jazz became America’s dominant popular music. Though styles changed rapidly as jazz ...

one of five native genres of African American music; the others are blues, jazz, rhythm and blues (R&B) and hip-hop music (including rap and breakdancing), which has existed for 50 years.Enslaved ...