Renee Flemings will celebrate the life, art and victories of Harlem Renaissance-era sculptor, activist and arts educator ...

February is Black History Month, dedicated to the legacy of African culture in America. But with events commemorating the birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. starting in mid-January, the San ...

Being able to see a Steve Carter play now, half a century after his heyday in the Black theater movement of the 1970s, is both a thrill and a whole new sensation. Yale Repertory Theatre is performing ...

When the tide in the Mississippi fell, animal guts, blood, entrails and intestines tossed into the river from slaughterhouses ...

A new production of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fences” may make you eager to see more of the playwright’s work ...

In 1935, Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, an “organization of organizations” to unify African American women’s organizations under one major umbrella. The Mary McLeod Bethune ...

Beautiful’ is back For the third time in 14 months, a suburban theater is reviving “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.” ...

Fences centers on the family of Pittsburgh sanitation worker Troy Maxson (Patric Robinson), a onetime baseball player in the ...

Since its enactment in 1986, I’ve attended numerous Martin Luther King Jr. holiday commemorations. Nearly all have been disappointing. Few speakers demonstrate knowledge of the foremost leader of the ...

Steve Carter’s play, a classic in the theatrical canon, shines a light on the nuances of the Black experience in the United ...

There was a time 70 years ago when Braceville, a rural township in Trumbull County, may have had the largest rural Black ...

(GALLOWAY, NJ) -- Six-time Grammy-winning gospel group The Blind Boys of Alabama, who state they are the longest running ...