It’s Never Too Late to Record Your First Album
“It’s Never Too Late” is a new series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own [...]
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Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’
Last May, adrift in a suddenly untethered world, five former ballerinas came together to form the 152nd Street Black Ballet Legacy. Every Tuesday [...]
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on African-American Religion
THE BLACK CHURCHThis Is Our Story, This Is Our SongBy Henry Louis Gates Jr. In the beginning there were the “praise houses” — [...]
Museum Exploring Music’s Black Innovators Arrives in Nashville
If you want to trace the roots of American popular music, you have to start when Europeans brought enslaved Africans across the Middle [...]
Three Women Who Helped Their Sons Become Civil Rights Icons
THE THREE MOTHERSHow the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a NationBy Anna Malaika Tubbs Of course [...]