Nora Holt was a pioneer of Chicago’s Black classical music scene. A friend of Josephine Baker, she later became a blues singer in Parisian nightclubs. A 1934 portrait of Nora Holt by Carl Van ...

Composer, singer and classical radio presenter Ayanna Witter-Johnson’s closing performance at Classically Black, the UK’s first Black classical music festival, will be broadcast in full on BBC Radio 3 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Dr. Samantha Ege, a researcher, musicologist ...

Every seat in the Missouri History Museum’s Lee Auditorium was filled Friday night for a gathering that honored the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by celebrating Blackness through the lens ...

A group of Black classically trained musicians called D-Composed have made it their mission to celebrate the work of Black composers from the past, present and future. "The mission of D-composed is to ...

Black musicians faced discrimination and segregation while touring, even as late as the 1950s and 1960s. Despite progress, Black artists still face challenges including subtle forms of racism.

During a special Women’s History Month edition of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D brought together three powerful voices in music and education: Dr Anne Lundy, Dr Jacqueline Pickett, and Bay Area ...

It's Black Music month! This week, Host Brittany Luse invites Howard University professor and trombonist Myles Blakemore to talk about how classical music influenced some of our favorite musicians.

In July 1913, friends of the African British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor gathered in his hometown of Croydon, England, to lay a plaque on his grave in anticipation of the first ...

Goggans grew up in East Cleveland and the University Circle neighborhood/area knowing early in life that music, he played drums in his family’s church, and performing was his future. When CCGS started ...