Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of ...

The former TOWIE star, 34, jetted abroad with her sister and Amanda Holden to celebrate the regional launch of the skincare ...

So perhaps it’s worth avoiding this particular song, dubbed ‘the most depressing song ever recorded.’ Say what you will if Blue Monday is an actual thing or just a myth/advertising stunt, but ...

Ernest “Ernie” Mae Miller was born in 1927 in Austin, Texas. She was the granddaughter of the famous educator LC Anderson. He ...

Gerald Norwood is a Wichita collector of "African Americana" — letters, legal papers and other artifacts of the black ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

In the early 1970s, Berry Gordy decided to take Motown to Hollywood, and he made a gamble on the first film he put the ...

Beginning on April 29, 1975, Armed Forces Radio jarringly blasted the Christmas song throughout the bombarded city as ...

Neranenah, a word that means “to come together and sing,” is the rebranded name for the Atlanta Jewish Music Festival. Neranenah will kick off its 2025 season Sunday at Studio Theatre at the Sandy ...

The actress opens up about her royal honor, becoming the first deaf person to present live sports on U.K. TV, launching her ...

However, the legendary A&R man/producer was also responsible for midwifing the careers of Billie Holliday, Aretha Franklin, Pete Seeger, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen and many others. As we see on ...