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 ...

Hail! Rock and Roll! It was the same theater that turned him away as a child because he was Black. See An Exploration of Smithsonian Collections Featuring African American Music from Smithsonian Music ...

Big Mama Thornton — a six-foot tall, 300-pound, Black, gender-nonconforming blue musician who wore men’s apparel and sang with a growl — has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ...

Detroit’s dazzling musical history will be brought into focus this weekend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African ...

Tharpe was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. National Postal Museum 32c Rosetta Tharpe single National Museum of African American History and Culture Photographic print of Sister ...

Ozzy Osbourne has revealed what to expect for his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame later this month. The Black Sabbath vocalist has told Rolling Stone that he’ll be inducted into the ...

At WXPR, we honor Black history and culture throughout the year—through the stories we share, the music we play, and the ...

Rock music first grew out of the rock’n’roll movement of the 1940s and 50s, which itself was inspired by country and African-American rhythm and blues from the 1920s and 30s. Even from its ...