The role of music is significantly emphasised when considering the sociocultural development of the Black Community against the backdrop of important historical events. If music has had such a ...

The festival, produced by the Black Arts Alliance Inc., showcases films by African-American filmmakers and ... by Nelson Shongo Leoni, and "The Jazz Photographer," directed by Cedric D Ingram.

I’ve come to Minton’s Playhouse to meet with Michael Arenella, a musician and bandleader who’s reinterpreted New York’s Jazz Age for a ... and 1930s when African American literature ...

Many have done so at the hair care mogul’s grave ... “They’re just here together,” said Olsen, about the variety of African American jazz greats, who all chose to spend time posthumously ...

These groups were among the first public performers of African American music prior to the development of music genres including jazz, blues, and gospel. Big bands, on the other hand, developed during ...

An African American composer and ... a very important person on a continuum of early American pianists that eventually led to the creation of jazz, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues.

On Oct. 5, 1958, Billie Holiday took the stage at the inaugural Monterey Jazz Festival ... had a profound effect on the way the African American community was perceived by the general public.

LIVE IN FAYETTEVILLE WHERE SHE SPOKE TO THE MIND BEHIND THE MAGIC. AFROS...BANTU KNOTS...KNOTLESS BRAIDS...OR LOCS-- AFRICAN AMERICAN HAIR COMES IN MANY DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES AND THAT'S ...

(The museum at Courvoisier’s headquarters, which I visited in September during a trip organized by an industry trade group, actually displays a lock of Napoleon Bonaparte’s hair.) However ...