For its first exhibition focused on Black style, the Met’s Costume Institute celebrates the Black dandy in its galleries and ...

When George Gershwin visited a cottage in Folly Beach, S.C., in 1934, “Porgy and Bess” came to life. But will it remain a ...

The song emphasizes the humanity and close family ties of the enslaved population at a time when African Americans were routinely dehumanized and caricatured. And then there's this from Louisville ...

He sang arias on the streets of San Francisco, performed on Broadway and collaborated on a musical about Al Jolson, which he ...

Truck drivers, pipe-fitters, farmers, and yeomen generally didn’t invent the ‘us versus them’ mentality. An insatiable ...