Black music, between the last year of the Obama presidency, and the numerous high-profile deaths of Black people at the hands of police.

In 1946, Orson Welles vowed to solve a shocking crime on his radio show on ABC: the beating of a Black soldier who was returning from service after Word War 2. Radio Diaries recalls the story.

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but mainstream American music didn’t just pop up on the radio out of thin air.

On the final installment of World Cafe's Black History Month series, John Morrison talks about what's happening today in Black music.

The band condemned the Trump administration for using the song “Let Down” in a post showing victims of violent crimes that ...

Many classic folk songs and spiritual songs were born on plantations, used as a way for slaves to discreetly communicate with one another.

A Hazlehurst‑born bluesman whose short life, mysterious death, and 29 recordings rewrote the future of American music.

We go back to the wee hours of May 11, 1965, when Johnny Cash was picking up material for his song "Starkville City Jail".

When Brenda Lee and Michael McDonald got together, alongside co-writer Dave Powelson, they came up with a tender ballad for Judd.

The year 2025 may have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean this current crop of Black movies are the only ones we’ll have to savor. In fact, 2026 looks poised and ready to bring us more than a ...