"I want to hear an American poem," rings out the voice of Ras Baraka to introduce the second act of Beyoncé's stadium-conquering Cowboy Carter Tour. "Something American, you know. Some sassy s–t, or ...

Specifically, one listener wanted to know, in the wake of the red-white-and-blue spectacle of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter and Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime show, how that conversation has evolved ...

Jack Johnson's historic boxing win on July 4,1910 upset much of America. But the next Black world heavyweight champ remains ...

A group of performers stepped and swayed in the sand at an open-air studio on the Senegalese coast as Germaine Acogny, known ...

Vintage political art posters show how protesters have long used July 4th to demand civil rights, social change and economic ...

For 12 days, Tehran fell dark and silent, except for the sound of explosions. In their houses and apartments, Iranians tried ...

HBE capstone event “Pathways & Pipelines,” explored how Black creativity builds bridges—preserving history, creating access, ...

Some of the most impactful truth-tellers of our time flipped their red, white and blue to demonstrate the subversive power of ...

A course on the contested meanings of the Declaration of Independence has never been more relevant—or more politically ...

In this essay, Olena Solodovnikova looks at the Soviet heritage of murals in today’s Ukraine and how younger artists try to ...

Don’t let anyone tell you tailgating at t Opera is dead. The parking lot of the famed opera house north of the city was very much alive Friday in the hours before the opening night performance of La ...