Nina Simone

Simone's birthplace in Tryon, North Carolina, was declared a National Treasure. Now, local events celebrate her and raise money for preservation efforts.

“Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.

How Nina Simone turned the movement into music.

A musicological conversation about the history and social value of Black music.

America is covered in Confederate statues. We can do better — and here’s how.

The famous author, who would have been 100 years old today, was best known for his novels and essays. But correspondence was where his light shone brightest.

On the falsification of Lincoln Center’s history.

Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.

Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary "Summer of Soul," revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.

A new book presents an expansive vision of soul music.

Songs from Public Enemy and Ludacris have been heard at marches, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues.

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, the beloved children’s television show was shaped by the African-American communities in Harlem and beyond.

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.”

The ‘First Television War’ was also documented in over 5,000 songs.

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

The death of Martin Luther King Jr. wasn’t a galvanizing event, but the premature end of a movement that had only just begun.

Since slavery, dogs have been used to intimidate and control African Americans.