Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

One book that echoes the themes explored in Langston Hughes's poetry is The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois. This ...

Sam Phillips opened the Memphis Recording Service. His early clients in 1950 included blues legends Howlin’ Wolf and B. B. King. They were among the first to record at what later became Sun Studio, ...

The West Coast Blues Society is addressing the theft of 40 plaques from Oakland's Walk of Fame, with efforts to raise $150,000 for replacements.

A fresh-faced singer and Mick Jagger’s muse in the 1960s, she went on to experience more than her share of hard times before emerging triumphant.

Detroit’s dazzling musical history will be brought into focus this weekend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African ...

The mac and cheese is creamy, cheesy perfection. It’s the kind of mac and cheese that makes you want to build a fort out of the pasta shells and live in it forever. The collard greens are cooked to ...

This month, the long-awaited documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin hits movie theaters across the U.S. In an era when the Beatles ...

Celebrating Black History Month, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday, Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum, Joe Nuxhall Way, ...

About 40 plaques were stolen from the 7th Street Oakland Walk of Fame, said Ronnie Stewart, the director of the West Coast ...

The land beneath their feet was the same earth they’d known for decades—unchanging, steady, eternal. The air brushed past ...

One of most important figures in our nation’s culinary history toiled away in the slave kitchens of an American founding ...