The style, religious fervor and tenor of the music shifts over time, eventually encompassing rap and hip hop in songs like Kurt Franklin’s “Stomp.” The narrative touches on some of the greats ...
Discover the life of Isaac Hockenhull, Mahalia Jackson's first husband—a talented chemist and entrepreneur, whose marriage to the gospel icon shaped their legacies.
Candi Staton’s career has taken her everywhere from segregated Alabama churches to ’90s dance floors. But her journey has also been marked by hardship. Now, after seven decades in music, the legendary ...
Songs of survival, defeat and hope swept through cotton fields in the antebellum south. Slaves used them to navigate a brutal ...
NOLA Public Schools plans to reopen Wednesday if conditions allow, following water main break and boil water advisory.
Several schools that were forced to close for two days over a broken Claiborne Avenue water main are slated to reopen ...
In Lurhmann’s view, what distinguishes “EPiC” is that it centers the singer in his own voice. “Elvis stuff is always somebody ...
The Civil Rights Movement was powered by the labor, care, and courage of ordinary people, particularly women, who worked behind the scenes to make the movement a success.
Several schools to close after water main break.
Bon Iver may be on an extended hiatus from live performance, but group leader Justin Vernon is looking back through his concert ...
If in 2022 Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis,” starring Austin Butler, restored a bit of glamour to Elvis Presley’s legacy, then “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert,” out now in IMAX, brings the whimsy.
A Black History Month celebration at Oak Park Library on Saturday honored three local women for their contributions to the creative arts and education.