The fellowship offers $12,500, performance opportunities and community engagement for emerging Black women and nonbinary jazz ...

In Seattle, two local radio shows on Daybreak Star Radio and KEXP, are joining the efforts to illuminate and celebrate the ...

From a 6 000-person event to a fully black-owned cultural phenomenon attracting 32,000 jazz lovers, discover how the Cape ...

Other audio selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved for future generations include recordings by Chicago, Miles ...

Black women have long shaped the sound and soul of R&B music. Their voices—raw, emotional and unmatched—have given us ...

a classical and jazz pianist touring the Jim Crow South with his white driver-bodyguard. Shirley's story is but one of thousands told by Black artists. As recently as the 1950s and 1960s ...

Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte are among those featured – both actors who advocated for civil rights and racial justice, but laid the groundwork for Black actors and artists. Oscar winner ...

As Women’s History Month comes to an end, I’ve been reflecting on ways to honor Black women. We often see and admire them in ways that are left unspoken or that aren’t amplified nearly ...

“Acting roles in those days 40 years ago were not plentiful for us Black folks, and we didn’t have ... year’s festival by ...

“Acting roles in those days 40 years ago were not plentiful for us Black folks ... by such a diverse group of women jazz performers, particularly instrumental artists, who are seeing greater ...