Louis Armstrong

A new book reveals the jazz musician’s mother and sister were arrested several times for prostitution in New Orleans.

For decades, Americans have argued over the icon’s legacy. But his archives show that he had his own plans.

Louis Armstrong’s complicated relationship with New Orleans.

How could Armstrong, born indisputably black at the height of Jim Crow and raised poor, be so happy?

“It was an affirmation of our city,” says New Orleanian food historian Lolis Eric Elie.

The belief endures, from Armstrong’s time that visible, affluent African-American entertainers are obliged to adopt a pose of ceaseless gratitude.

The long history of benevolence, self-help, and parades in New Orleans.

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.

Her new book tells the story of Black people through an exploration of the color blue.

Syncopation and swing reigned supreme at the annual Lorton Reformatory Jazz Festival in the 1960s.

Before Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” won song of the year at the CMAs, hit maker Ted Jarrett’s music topped the country charts.

In the 1930s, a Seattle entrepreneur created a successful analog streaming platform—and ran it out of a drugstore.

A remarkable blues musician emerged from obscurity in 1959, but something about him just didn’t seem right.

Tammy Wynette and Johnny Cash cancelled gigs in Belfast during the violent 1970s, but Pride played on.

Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”

How floods have united people of color from the Gulf Coast states for nearly a century.