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Discover how African American travelers can explore heritage sites while supporting Black-owned businesses and creating ...
We spoke with the scholar about Black in Blues, a poetic exploration of the relationship between the color blue and Black people.
Clark, who is African-American, got his start playing ... “And my real soul is always in the blues.” Here on Beale Street, he’d found his tribe. “It feels like home being here,” he ...
Revellers wander from bar to bar along Bourbon St clutching half-drunk ... place in American history and blues folklore. As we pull out of Greenville, African American children fly kites on ...
Filmmaker Ryan Coogler has made his first truly original film in “Sinners,” which opens in theaters nationwide Friday.
The Blue Front Cafe sits at one end of the street ... Spirituals, field hollers and African rhythms evolved into blues music over many years across the American South, but the Dockery Plantation ...
And “Black Panther” let him grapple with the idea of what it means to be African. In just four features ... gangster drama, romance, blues music and action across one eventful day in ...
Festival and Conference will return for its fifth year with a diverse, roots-inspired and decades-spanning artist lineup.
We’re 36 nautical miles off the South African coast headed for Cape Town, where we’re due to dock on Thursday morning. Last ...
“Gospel began in Black churches and is a vital part of African-American ... a foundation of American popular music. Its influence can be heard in R&B, soul, rock and the blues.” ...