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 ...

A roundup of this week’s events in the D.C. area includes a Black Film Festival and celebrations of Holi and Pi Day.

Watch performer Cristina Raè of the Aretha Frankling tribute 'R.E.S.P.E.C.T.' chat with KXLY about the show coming to Spokane ...

Tribute concerts to three musical legends of history — Aretha Franklin, Freddie Mercury’s Queen and David Bowie — fill the ...

Angie Stone, the Grammy-nominated R&B singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1970s as “Angie B” in the hip-hop trio the Sequence, died in a car crash Saturday morning. She was 63.

As the 2025 Oscars prepares to honor the late Quincy Jones with a tribute on Sunday, we decided to take a look back at his decades-long career in admiration and astonishment. In addition to being ...

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

“I was teaching at Banneker Junior High in Washington, D.C. It was part of ... Versatile enough to summon the up-tempo gospel passion of Aretha Franklin, Flack often favored a more reflective ...

Versatile enough to summon the up-tempo gospel passion of Aretha Franklin, Flack often favored a more reflective ... She sometimes backed other singers, but her own shows at Washington's renowned Mr.