Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill’s album of the year wins all came in the 1990s. Beyoncé’s fifth shot, for ...

Credit: LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 10: Singers Beyonce Knowles (L) and Tina Turner perform onstage during the 50th annual Grammy awards held at the Staples Center on February 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, ...

Ferrand, a star in her time, left the scantest of paper trails; other Black women musicians left even less, according to ...

Cann knows that many of the names on this program are unknown, but she hopes Chicago audiences will give it a chance.

she was an inspiration not just in the field of music, but in film, with 1995’s Waiting To Exhale in particular still held up as a watershed of mainstream representation of black women in cinema.

Music serves as a snapshot of the times ... t Touch My Hair” – as someone that’s organizing around how Black women are legally discriminated against because of their hair… or [Beyoncé ...