The exhibition features African American musicians who visited three venues in Newcastle during the late 1950s and 1960s: ...

Shukrani Gray, head of access and opportunity at the library, has worked extensively with The HistoryMakers database, and she ...

Historian Ludovic Tournès explains how differing attitudes to jazz in the United States and Europe meant that many African American musicians were keen to pursue their careers in Paris ...

Three iconic African musicians drop new albums, reaffirming their lasting influence amid a new wave of pop stars.

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Amadou Bagayoko and his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, rose from icons in Mali to international success over the last two ...

A student is showcasing the various African American musicians who visited a city in the 1960s. Lily Usher-Unsworth, from Whitley Bay, has designed a small exhibition for City Library in Newcastle ...

Jimmie Strother was a man who defined a disappearing culture and whose songs are so important they reside in the Library of ...

WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Ailey Artistic Director Matthew Rushing and Ailey's musical director/composer about their ...

The Chitlin Circuit was a collection of hotels, performance venues and businesses where Black musicians are artists could travel. During segregation, African-American artists couldn’t perform at ...