A song often referred to as the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” will be performed by local artist Ledisi at Sunday’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, the fifth year it has featured in ...

If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing ...

Before Kendrick Lamar took over the music world, he was K.Dot, an up-and-coming rapper who was ready to take the industry by ...

I have a hyphenated last name. For much of my life, I have taken pride in this; my mother, unyielding, refused to give up her ...

Born April 27, 1927, in Heiberger, Alabama, she faced segregation head-on from childhood, walking five miles to school while ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...