The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in grants to 30 historically Black Churches as a part of its third annual ...

At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

We talked to Peter Wolf about his excellent new memoir and hanging with everyone from Van Morrison to Howlin' Wolf to Aretha Franklin ...

Masters of Hawaiian Music, Night on the Town, the 2025 Artist Invitational opening night and “Mamma Mia!” are happening on ...

“Capitol Sessions,” you’ll hear a deeply soulful Dayne as she interprets John Mayer’s “Gravity,” Aretha Franklin’s “Without the One You Love” and Dinah Washington’s “This ...

Aretha Franklin, Spike Lee and Earth Wind and Fire. The NAACP Hall of Fame Award is presented to “individuals or groups who have been pioneers in their respective fields and whose influence ...

President Trump announced Thursday that the National Garden of American Heroes will be getting statues of Kobe Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson.

Roberta Flack announced in 2022 she had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and could no longer sing.

At her peak, the singer’s music was capable of great depth, sincerity and emotional intimacy, which she seemingly conjured ...

The James Beard Awards, a custodian of Chicago's hospitality industry, have named Chicago's Lem's Bar-B-Q as one of ...

Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses finds the rocker getting candid about his split with the J. Geils Band and ...

Her voice wasn’t particularly large, compared to such contemporaries as Aretha Franklin and Donna Summer, but when Roberta Flack sang, her refined, honeyed alto forged a hushed ...