Timberlake performed a medley of hits he and Williams worked on together at the Recording Academy's event in Los Angeles on Thursday Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...
LOS ANGELES — At a pre-Grammy event celebrating Black music’s cultural power, Pharrell Williams used the Recording Academy stage to deliver a prayer — not for himself, but for U.S. leaders. “I want to ...
Predators hockey won’t be the only form of entertainment inside Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday night. Black Music Heritage Night, presented by Nissan, will take place as the Preds host the Buffalo ...
Morgan Simpson, left, Geordie Greep, Cameron Picton and Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin of Black Midi at the 2019 SXSW festival in Austin. Getty Images for SXSW Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, the co-founding ...
NBC 5, Telemundo 39, and The Black Academy of Arts and Letters (TBAAL) invite you to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King with a tribute concert. The 43 rd Black Music and the Civil Rights ...
REVOLT spotlights 41 influential Black artists, creatives and cultural icons we lost in 2025. Historical and cultural context emphasize the lasting impact of their work. These icons’ contributions ...
A music and dance collective has grown beyond day parties into a full-fledged cultural community, bringing its unfettered energy to Miami Art Week each year. Everyday People originated out of New York ...
This is the first in a series of essays by Peter Himmelman exploring the intersection of Judaism, creativity, and rock ‘n’ roll. Once, while my parents were away, my Grandma Min woke my three siblings ...
There is no American music without Black roots. From country-western, which draws upon banjo music from Africa, to rock 'n' roll—first electrified by a Black woman in 1938—every major American genre ...
Will Marion Cook, born in 1869 to educated parents in Washington, D.C., played some mean violin. As was true of many musical geniuses, his technique was at first faulty. But his facility, as well as ...
“Too Black for the White kids, and too White for the Blacks,” Earl Sweatshirt confesses on his 2013 track “Chum.” The lyric hit like a punch to the gut because it wasn’t just Earl’s story, it was a ...
Most of the 6:30 AM interviews with musicians that have taken place in the last several decades probably happened at the end of an epic night of partying. But when I pull up to East Nashville’s Shelby ...