American recording artist, singer and musician Little Richard performing live, UK, 27th June 1975. (Photo by Angela Deane-Drummond/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Photo by: Angela ...

From Solange Knowles to Josephine Baker, Black women have been breaking the mold in the field of dance for generations. Over the last decade, Black women have made some major strides in dance. In 2015 ...

An iconic painting by renowned Durham artist Ernie Barnes is on display at the Mint Museum Uptown. The artwork depicts a lively night at a Black dance hall in the segregated South of the early 1950s.

An initiative started in 2019 helps to address funding disparities and offers a vision of Black dance as a form whose categories refuse to be static. By Emma R. Cohen Reporting from Chicago. On a warm ...

You can’t study the history of popular music without familiarizing yourself with the best Black singers from the 50s. In fact, you might be surprised just how many music genres can trace their roots ...

Over the last decade, Black women have made some major strides in dance. In 2015, Misty Copeland made history when she became the first Black principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre’s 75-year ...