Shannon Sanders, an African-American South Nashville native and award-winning BMI executive director of creative, reflects on ...

The 84-year-old soul stalwart has survived alcoholism, segregation, a dramatic mid-career trough, and a relationship in which ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music ... the Black National Anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," and Billie ...

The Sly & the Family Stone leader is the subject of a new documentary directed by Questlove. Here’s what to know about his ...

Ahead of his Sunday performance, Matt B talked with Block Club about how Black identity and his upbringing inspires his music. He won the Grammy for Best Global Music Album earlier this month.

Black people are spiritual beings ... The rich lineage of gospel music began in earnest as a young man named Thomas Dorsey came to Chicago during the Great Migration,” WTTW, Chicago’s PBS ...

But the line is a fitting encapsulation of music historian Jon Savage’s argument in The Secret Public, a history of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. had a deep respect for music as an instrument of change ... Missouri, of an unarmed Black man, Michael Brown, by a white police officer, the Game recruited an all-star ...

Hussle focused on "giving solutions and inspiration" to young Black men like him ... activist. Her music crossed all genres from classical, jazz, blues and folk to R&B, gospel, and pop.

Grammy Award-winning gospel singer Kirk Franklin sang "Lift ... Fort Worth’s Kirk Franklin will be honored with the Black Music Icon Award at a Recording Academy event in Los Angeles on Jan ...