On Sunday mornings, during worship at a Black church, the sign language interpreter is often the most animated person in the room. Their spirited machinations include hands flying, bodies swaying, and ...

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AfroFuture Detroit blends Afrobeats and Amapiano with the familiar sounds of Motown and Techno. This sonic journey roots itself in the city’s musical DNA. It honors the rhythms that have defined ...

Radiation within the visible spectrum can appear black if it is low in power – more specifically, lower in power than its ...

For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the chapel filled with a collective sense the audience was about to witness history. They were ...

H.B.C.U. bands have been part of the festivities since the first halftime show. This year, Southern University’s “Human ...

For much of my life, country music felt like a locked door — a mysterious place that invited no one who looked like me. It seemed firmly rooted in a different world, one sprinkled with images of ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

Detroit’s dazzling musical history will be brought into focus this weekend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African ...