Johnson, a pioneering Black musician born in Philadelphia in 1792, was the first African American composer to publish sheet ...

Underneath oak trees and Spanish moss from Texas to the Carolina coasts, the remains of Black Americans lay in unmarked ...

New Orleans honored 19 African American individuals with jazz funeral ceremony after their remains were repatriated from ...

Explore how 9 influential Black musicians including Louis Armstrong, Michael Jackson, and Prince changed music history ...

In the 1800s, a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls of 19 Black residents to Leipzig, Germany, where researchers engaged in ...

In an upper room above those streets, the Book of Acts tells us, disciples of Jesus, recently crucified, cowered. Yet, filled ...

Crafters and artists find camaraderie and build skills through the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland.

Different threads wove together to create the city’s jazz tapestry. The saxophone was invented in Belgium and the first internationally acclaimed European jazz musician ... traditional music from ...

Oak Ridge event for "Our American Roots" included members of Oak Valley Baptist, Jewish Congregation of Oak Ridge, and First ...

The Marshall L. Davis Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center will present “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance ...

Despite the existence of scat-like singing in the folk music traditions of West Africa and Europe (for example, Scottish mouth music), it is most likely that scat emerged in jazz in the early ...