The National Museum of African American Music, or NMAAM, is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. The ...

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Chicago singer and songwriter Ella Jenkins, known as the "First Lady of Children's Music," has died at the age of 100.

Carter's political and cultural impact will be studied in a new college course coming to Yale University next year.

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When artistic director and composer Rhiannon Giddens brought her idea of a musical project built around the American railroad to the Grammy Award–winning musical ensemble, Silkroad, she was met with ...

Pop superstar Beyoncé and her expansive cultural legacy will be the subject of a new course next year at Yale University ...

New Nigerian Irish Artist Omas has released his new single, Be The Woman. We asked him the BIG questions . . .

She noted how Beyoncé has also tried to tell a story through her music about “race and gender and sexuality in the context of ...