For musicians like Rhiannon Giddens and Rissi Palmer, trying to break down doors in the folk and country music scenes has been a long road. A festival in Durham this weekend aims to remedy that.

I wish I had been there, in the late 1930s, when Sister Rosetta Tharpe first plugged her guitar into her little transistor ...

“Sinners” is a seven-layer cake of cinematic excellence. Ryan Coogler did more than give us a Jim Crow-era vampire scary movie. He tip-toed on the lines of life and death, in between American horror ...

Damian Goggans' performances of "14 Etudes on The Music of Black Americans" connect audiences to the rich history of ...

Chinese singer Zhou Shen has recently wrapped up the North American leg of his world concert tour. During the performances, he serenaded audiences with a collection of popular Chinese songs, including ...

Right away, we’re hit with a title card informing us of the story’s time and place: 1932, the Mississippi Delta, two ...

Taking place every April on the Azores island of São Miguel, Tremor, a five-day experimental music festival, is an ...

Midway through his vampire western, the “Black Panther” director brings music history to life—from hip-hop, to Chinese opera ...

Together, Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan have built a cinema collaboration transcending genre. They've leaped from ...

We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, ...

When she gets home, Solange turns celebration into an art form.