But the headline act was not the ship, it was the Mississippi itself. Dubbed “the great artery of America” by Civil War ...

Trecek-King and Mobley’s idea became “Crossing The Deep,” a special concert series showing the parallels between the choral works of Handel and the spirituals of enslaved Africans in America.

The free concert is based on the award-winning documentary The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music.

In December 1909, the Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, continuing the legacy of the original 1870s Fisk Jubilee Singers, ...

Fighters accuse Francimar Barroso of booking and then cancelling events to steal from sponsors, not pay fighters.

Diddy’s famed White Parties are now under fire after allegations claim their all-white dress code symbolized women’s status as his sex slaves.

Several high-profile celebrities were slapped with human-trafficking charges in late 2024, from music mogul Sean Combs, known as P. Diddy, to Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries. Neither has been ...

Innovative theatre, explorative music, and a lovely winter walk: all this and more in the Luxembourg of the new year ...

Over two centuries ago, hundreds of enslaved individuals fled from a plantation in LaPlace, and embarked on a march along the Mississippi River toward New Orleans which led to an uprising. This ...

Conductor Nicholas Hersh calls William Dawson's work "a fundamental part of our history and a beautiful piece of our culture." ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...