so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

The diary of African American teenager Jessie Greer ... blouse and long dark skirt stands beside him. They are timeless portraits of men and women and look as if they had once hung in living ...

Describing the African-American influence on American music in all of its glory an d variety is an intimidating—if not impossible—task. African American influences are so fundamental to American music ...

Kate McMahon is a Smithsonian Institution museum specialist at the National Museum of African American History & Culture and leads research efforts at the Center for the Study of Global Slavery.

LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - Next year, the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art will feature exhibits focusing on the Hispanic community in Mississippi, African-American artists from the Magnolia State and ...

HUNTINGTON Marshall University’s School of Music will host “Poets and Portraits: An exploration of the African American experience through song” at 5 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church of ...

Photographer and writer Austin Bryant delves into the intertwined and elusive nature of history and memory in “Where They ...

PORTSMOUTH — Portraits of Emerson Reed, Geraldine “Jeri” Cousins Palmer, Hazel Sinclair and more of the region’s influential Black forebears hang on walls of the Seacoast African American Cultural ...

Gov. Andy Beshear joined Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman and the Kentucky Commission on Women to commemorate Women’s History ...