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

The Fulbright Specialist Program, funded by the U.S. Department of State, promotes knowledge exchange and partnerships ...

Morojele’s creative career was remarkable. He not only played the jazz changes, but lived and wrote the social and political ...

Morojele relocated to Johannesburg in 1995 and picked up his old playing relationship with Lee, by then also settled there.

Omer Avital’s visionary ‘North African Dream’ debuts with the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod at next week’s Meridiano ...

From rare Ernest Cole prints to iconic portraits of Makeba and Masekela, this show captures the musicians and the energy of ...

Captured Mandela’s release and South Africa’s first electionsBlended photojournalism with jazz to document Black joy and struggleLeft behind 500,000 ...

Afro-Cuban jazz creates a blend of jazz’s harmonic complexity with the rhythmic vigor and syncopation of African and Cuban music. It was popularized by artists like Dizzy Gillespie and Chano ...

In 1865, enslaved people in parts of Texas found out the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed 2 1/2 years earlier. On ...

If Lagos had a soundtrack at sundown when the city’s pulse softens and the street lights start to flirt with the evening ...

With a heavy heart, I mourn Rashid Lombard, a titan of South African culture and a revolutionary artist. His profound loss ...