And yet, as Alberga explains in her recent BBC Radio 3 documentary A History of Black Classical Music, there are references to black musicians in Europe going all the way back to the 12th century.

My maternal grandfather, who we lovingly called Poppy, is a country boy from Ohio who loved horses, westerns, and good music ... Beyoncé gives voice to Black history while honoring the present.

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the ...

At the Stax Music Academy, students are using soul and R&B music from the 1960s and 1970s to teach lessons for Black History Month. The after-school program is right next door to the former studio ...

Hattie “Chatty Hatty” Leeper, one of the Southeast’s first black female disc jockeys, turned an after-school job organizing ...

Every week for Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is highlighting a different trailblazer and maverick of Black music history.