John F. Kennedy, the man and the myth -- JFK says I've got to go -- Twistin' out in space -- The welfare turns its back on you -- March on, Dr. Martin Luther King -- The day the world stood still ...

American Blues Theater announced Nia Akilah Robinson as the 2026 Blue Ink Award recipient for her play OVERNIGHT AT THE ...

Jéan P the MC will be telling his story of music and perseverance in a documentary about his life. "A Rhyme and a Dream: The Jéan P the MC Story" will be released ...

SEATTLE — A powerful new exhibit at Seattle's Museum of Pop Culture is amplifying the sounds and stories of African American musical legends, including Seattle native Jimi Hendrix. The exhibit, titled ...

Saloon-theaters and park pavilions : the birth of southern vaudeville, 1899-1909 -- The death of J. Ed Green and the birth of State Street vaudeville -- The life, death, and untold legacy of Bluesman ...

Born from the spirituals, work songs, and field hollers of African American communities in the Deep South, blues music gave ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to jazz musician Sherman Irby about his new show at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, "Birth of the Blues," exploring the origin of the blues and its continued ...

Before anything else, “Sinners” is a movie about the blues. The genre — so entrenched in the history of Black America, so ingrained in the sociopolitical culture of the post-antebellum South — totally ...

Charles Smith and Chuck Smith, two venerable artists with a long and auspicious history in Chicago theater, don’t just have similar names. They’ve been friends and collaborators for close to 40 years.

Award-winning blues and rock artist Tommy Castro returns to World Records with his band, The Painkillers, for a show on Friday. This performance from the four-time Blues Foundation's B.B. King ...

Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People” is one of those books that slips the boundaries, or disregards them altogether in its way. A meditation, or a series of linked ...