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Remembering Sherman Hemsley
The actor will always be George Jefferson; that Afro-American everyman who moved on up to the East Side on the...
The actor will always be George Jefferson; that Afro-American everyman who moved on up to the East Side on the...
Jazz is the art of invention and reinvention. And nothing illustrates that more forcefully than the amazing life and artistry...
Brazil is the largest African nation on Earth in population, with the exception of Nigeria, and more Africans were brought...
“Mary Lou Williams is perpetually contemporary. Her writing and performing have always been a little ahead…her music maintains a quality...
One of the ancestral imperatives of the New Negro Movement of the early twentieth century was for African-Americans to investigate...
The name Whitney Young (1921-1971) may ring a bell because it’s the name of the Chicago magnet high school Michelle...
In the mid-seventies, I was between two musical worlds; the no-nonsense, bebop jazz swing that men my dad’s age loved...
The seventies was arguably the last great era of R&B bands and the Ohio Players rounded out a 'holy trinity'...
Alto/soprano saxophonist/flutist/educator Tia Fuller is enjoying the best of two musical worlds. The Colorado-born, New Jersey-based, Spelman alum is a...
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month – which runs through October 15th – EBONY interviewed African-Americans and Hispanics about the...