After teasing her first new song in two years with sheet music and a clip of a black-clothed orchestra following her down a ...

On her new album, Who Did the Body, the Houston rapper embodies an ethic of Blackness rooted in community and commitment ...

The Daily Yonder highlights a centuries-old Appalachian hymn singing tradition, still uplifting souls through heartfelt ...

The Choral, 2025. Directed by Nicholas Hytner. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Roger Allam, Amara Okereke, Simon Russell Beale and ...

IT wasn’t so long ago that Philadelphia announced a return to a musical gold standard. For this season, at least, it was declared, Mr. Stokowski would deal only in accepted coinage, and there would be ...

One of the innovators of what was called neo-soul, D’Angelo’s influence was far greater than you might expect from someone ...

Maddie Oliphant is the first Black winner of Miss Mississippi Teen USA. We chronicled her last few months as she prepped for ...

E.L. Doctorow was not convinced that “Ragtime,” his sprawling, iconic, 1975 novel about America in the early 20th Century, ...

D’Angelo, the R&B crooner who helped pioneer neo-soul, has died after a private battle with cancer. He was 51.

Brother and sister Americana duo Common Roots joins a traditional song circle featuring Chuck Dunlap, Ed Carr, Alan ...

Bishop Yehiel Curry looked out at the hundreds of leaders and parishioners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America who gathered Saturday in Minneapolis to celebrate his installation as the ...

The renowned Birmingham Community Gospel Choir is marking its 20th year in a joyous celebratory concert. The multi ...