In 1968, a teen got Thelonious Monk to play a concert at his high school. 50 years later, the recording set off a battle with ...

The Los Angeles Jazz Scene of the 1950’s from Robert Gordon’s “Jazz West Coast” article by Steven Cerra, published on July 20 ...

Which celebrities are New Orleans Saints fans? These big names in the arts, sports, and media wear black and gold on Sundays.

Before planners and property developers turned Manhattan into a sterile playground for the wealthy, it was the site of ...

My father taught me about jazz, poetry, and philosophy, but he couldn’t show me how to be Black and a Red Sox fan.

As black musicians in a predominantly white scene, as Rastafarians in Reagan’s America, they were outsiders. The band drew on ...

In the spirit of always #RootingForEverybodyBlack, we sat down with icons and phenoms like Jadakiss, DJ Drama, and Kevin Ross ...

Earlier this month, and for the first time since 2023, Rock Music Menu headed north of the border to Canada for the Montreal ...

Birth of a Nation” (2025) by Stan Douglas. The Canadian artist remakes a sequence from the 1915 movie with new ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, poetry slam and drag king competitions are in town, it’s ...

Ella Fitzgerald made history on May 4, 1959, as the first woman to win a Grammy Award. The “First Lady of Song” took home two ...

When Lexie Webster integrated an Indianapolis neighborhood in 1963, fences went up. She spent her 96 years breaking down ...