Florence Price weaves African American spirituals, folk melodies, and classical traditions into a work full of warmth, vitality, and radiant beauty. Hear her Symphony No. 1 tonight on 91.1, 107.5 and ...

Duke Ellington rejected it, Charles Mingus was ambivalent about it, and Wynton Marsalis is okay with it. For many African American musicians the word “jazz” is a double-edged term, sometimes ...

The British composer was a generational success story before his death at 37 — yet keeping that legacy in view has always been a challenge, even... In July 1913, friends of the African British ...

When nine students and a music professor set off on a fundraising tour from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871, they had no idea what lay ahead. They just hoped their talents as singers and the ...

Anna Alejo is CBS News Colorado's Executive Producer of Community Impact. She works with the news team to develop more grassroots relationships and original content at the neighborhood and local ...

Interview “Virtuosity Provides Freedom”: Thoughts from an African American Composer Lamar’s performances evoke a haunted, transcendent act of awakened consciousness and composed virtuosity that b ...

The Hannan Center is offering a series that looks at the untold stories of African Americans in America. Their upcoming event ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites American ...

In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...