Clifton Chenier is known as the King of Zydeco. He was a pioneering accordion player who melded Black Creole dance music from ...

Taylor Swift is dancing through the lightning strikes in her “Opalite” music video. The video began with a fictional ’80s-style commercial for a cleaning spray that can “magically [transform] your ...

Belgium is making a strong showing in this year’s line-up, with the engaging—though very different—films Adam’s Sake (Laura Wendel), a starkly moving pediatric ward saga loosely reminiscent of If I ...

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Vibes in the Park is a free outdoor event series in Denver celebrating Black culture with music, connection, and positive energy.

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I’m going to obviously keep one at the studio because that was my dream,” Jelly Roll told Entertainment Tonight in a Wednesday, February 4, interview alongside his Star Sea ...

A “notorious” Tanzanian drug-trafficking kingpin has been arrested in Zambia during a raid, the Zambian Drug Enforcement ...

For Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison kicks off a weekly series with a deep dive into the history ...

WITN’s Courtney Bunting met with a group of musicians in Kinston who helped shape the genre. “Birth of funk” – a message displayed prominently in downtown Kinston, and a point of pride for the Eastern ...

In the shadow of a coal mine in southern Greece, archaeologists discovered the oldest known handheld wooden tools ever found.

Beginning in the late 1700s, enslaved Africans gathered on Sundays at Congo Square in New Orleans. It became one of the most important cultural sites in American music history, a place where dancing, ...