The Midwest music festival will feature performances by JT, Infinite Coles and Onya Nurve.

Go inside ESSENCE's Black Women In Music celebration featuring Monica, Missy Elliott, Tamar Braxton, Dawn Richard, Teedra ...

The Oscar winner released “Death Letter Blues” with Taj Mahal on Juneteenth ahead of his upcoming project, “Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic ...

Behind Clive Davis's roster of hitmakers is a larger story about who financed, distributed, and profited from Black music during the last half-century.

Black Music Month traces its origins back to 1979, when music industry figures including Kenny Gamble, Dyana Williams, and Ed Wright successfully pushed for a national celebration recognizing the ...

Monday marks the start of Black Music Month. Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1979, Black Music Month recognizes the cultural and historical significance of Black musicians. The Black ...

Ma Rainey is best known, but Ida Cox, Cora Mae Bryant, Beverly ‘Guitar’ Watkins and Precious Bryant left essential music. From left to right: Ma Rainey, Beverly “Guitar” Watkins, Ida Cox, Precious ...

Vevo expands its cultural footprint with a sweeping Black History Month 2026 tribute honoring a century of transformative Black music culture. Music video network Vevo is marking Black History Month ...

To celebrate Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison has been bringing you a weekly series on the music of the African Diaspora. For the last installment of the series, Morrison ...

NEW YORK — One day in the late 1970s, bassist Melvin Gibbs was walking through Brooklyn’s Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood when he heard loud music playing. Following the sound, he came upon a ...