The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans ... the only venues for jazz, since African American performers are banned from performing at white clubs. In 1917, the U.S. Navy, fearing ...

Rhythm. Color. Movement. Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms, and colors of jazz inspired prominent visual artists of the 20th century. In depicting African American culture, Romare ...

Beginning Feb. 20 and lasting through the end of the month, the Peacock Café will be hosting Black History celebrations. The ...

The streets of the Five Points neighborhood of Denver will feature art galleries, jazz music and culinary delights in honor ...

Throughout its twentieth-century evolution from mass entertainment to elite art, African-American jazz has reflected social tensions surrounding race, class, “cultivated” taste, and “vernacular” pop ...