While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

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This spring the Lakeport Plantation Museum, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site, will host a reading retreat focusing ...

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Eastern Washington University (EWU) is offering students unique opportunities to learn about Black history, especially during Black History Month in February.

The first thing that you have to accept when you write a book about early blues music, Dr. Gregg Kimball says, is that you’ll never solve the mystery of it all. “We just dont ...

Dr. James Livingood, distinguished UTC professor, discussed the removal of the Cherokee from this area in excerpts from his "Chattanooga: Illustrated History:" ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Ollie M. Your browser does not support the audio element.Simon Alexander Haley, my ...

In the "Cowboy Carter Chronicles," Digital Producer Jyesha Johnson explores Beyoncé's groundbreaking impact on country music and its historical ties to Black culture. Beyoncé's album, "Cowboy Carter," ...

Larry McClellan, a founding professor at Governors State University, has spent decades researching, writing and speaking ...

As a chance to hear Chang discuss her poetic process, Agu thought the event was an opportunity that couldn’t be passed up.