Billboard spoke with esteemed cultural critics to break down the complex dynamic between Black hip-hop (and hip-hop-adjacent) artists and Americana ... from Black R&B and hip-hop stars that ...

Trombonist, composer, improviser, and academic George E. Lewis expands the definition of “Black music” in uncountable ...

A “laughably bad” statue of the Queen and Prince Philip has been unveiled at Antrim Castle Gardens in Northern Ireland amid a ...

You probably recognize him as one of the most decorated R&B artists of the 1980s and ‘90s. But he was also a ... who regularly took him to hear Black artists downtown, including Sam Cooke ...

Whether or not that actually lands is a different conversation, but to take the use of the flag at face value as a blind ... contemporary mainstream Black R&B/hip-hop artists using the American ...

Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” era singlehandedly ignited the fire of acknowledging the Black community ... and R&B. The duo excels in every avenue as both individual artists and a group.

Until then, he had recorded mainly R&B ballads ... in the artist's own words. In 1968, Pete Townshend of "The Who" told Rolling Stone magazine that he planned to write a 90-minute rock opera called ...

One reason, Mabry suggests, is that Hollywood spends more resources on blockbusters and far less on what the industry frustratingly now considers niche, like independent Black cinema. “Y’all could ...

According to a 2014 census report by BFAMFAPhD, 8% of working artists in the United States are Black. Still, Black artists only made up 2.2% of acquisitions and 6.3% of exhibitions in a period ...

Then a conversation with a co-worker compelled her to set out on a mission to document and share the rich legacy of the city’s Black artists ... first encountered 90-year-old Marian Stephens ...