As the Great Emancipator who actively supported the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution which abolished slavery, Abraham Lincoln has always been held in high esteem by African Americans, and yet ...

TN Smithsonian American Art Museum Rhythmic Blues National Museum of African American History and Culture Costume worn by Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues National Museum of ...

The blues is a style of music created by African Americans at the end of the 19th Century. It developed out of folk music, spiritual songs and work songs. The blues would have been originally ...

Imani Perry finds room to improvise, to think on the page in what feels like real time. Her work walks a line between ethnography and history.

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The cultural impact of Boomer rock is profound, shaping our societal norms and expressions through fashion and ideology, ...

The flood was both a public event, a news story, and something that hundreds of thousands of African Americans experienced directly. The Delta itself has throughout blues history been a stronghold ...

The blues let early African American singers like Bessie Smith and Muddy Waters expand the music to a wider audience. As a ...

Chatham Community Library presents the "African American Musicians of North Carolina" exhibit, free to the public.

Born here 1886, she is credited with transforming the blues genre into a powerful expression of African-American life, especially in the rural South. Known as the "Mother of the Blues," her career ...