Growing up in Montgomery, Alabama, Cole was exposed to the vibrant African American musical traditions of jazz and blues, which helped shape his remarkable piano skills and emotive vocal style. As the first African American to host a nationally televised variety show, Cole broke...
2024 GRAMMYs: Tyla Wins First-Ever GRAMMY Award For Best African Music Performance "I never thought I’d say I won a GRAMMY at 22 years old," the South African singer said. Although coming up against stiff competition, including massive Afrobeats stars Burna Boy and Davido, Tyla's hit son...
(born April 7, 1935) is an American country music singer and songwriter, best known for the songs "Detroit City" and "500 Miles Away from Home". He is the father of Bobby Bare Jr., also a musician. Also ranks #6 on The Best Country Singers From Ohio Also ranks #18 on Old ...
No Time to Die's Cary Fukunaga directs this harrowing feature, which follows the journey of a young orphan (Abraham Attah) forced into becoming a child soldier by a fierce warlord (Idris Elba) during an unnamed African civil war. An adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala's novel of the same name,...
If, in the late Fifties and early Sixties, you were drawn to that place on the AM radio dial where the rhythms, the grooves and the beautiful sounds of African-American soul were playing, you would have found Curtis Mayfield. Many of us first heard him as backing vocalist in the Impressi...
Diana Ross, first as a part of the Supremes and later as a solo artist, has significantly impacted the music industry. Her voice, image, and success paved the way for future African-American R&B and soul acts to gain mainstream recognition. Ross also had a successful acting career, establi...
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Proving once again that sometimes it’s the relative unknowns who make the best subjects for a music doc, A Band Called Death is a satisfying, almost epic saga, recounting what happened when three African-American brothers started a proto-punk band in early 1970s Detroit. The film covers th...
every African American writer in the country wants their work published there. When her first novel is released to great acclaim, it’s clear that Jessie is at the heart of a renaissance in Black music, theater, and the arts. She has shaped a generation of literary legends, but as she ...
that have led not only to the privatization of the American prison system but also to the staggeringly disproportionate incarceration of millions of African American men and women. The film can be difficult to watch, but DuVernay’s grim realizations are made to be blatant. What is also appare...