On March 31, 1995, Selena was tragically killed at 23 in her hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas, by Yolanda Saldivar, her ...

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Daymé Arocena, 33, is Cuban. And Black. And these two traits have shaped her life and artistic career. She says that she was born a musician: she didn’t become one. This is because her ancestors ...

Earlier this year, burgeoning British pop star Rachel Chinouriri shared a heartfelt and heartwrenching post with her followers on X. She’d just opened for Sabrina Carpenter’s European tour, meeting ...

Here’s 40 of the most influential black female singers of the 1960s and 1970s. In 2008, Rolling Stone put together a list of the “100 greatest singers of all time.” The lineup was mighty. At the 100th ...

There is no American music without Black roots. From country-western, which draws upon banjo music from Africa, to rock 'n' roll-first electrified by a Black woman in 1938-every major American genre ...

There would be no American music as we know it without the contributions of Black artists. Since the earliest Africans were brought to the Americas in bondage beginning in the 16th century, Black ...

Scott Strickland and Poet Hawkins perform at Black Artists Rock in September Credit: Rikki Junius Scott Strickland is the kind of person who makes the changes he wants to see. Over the last two years, ...

Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter at the New Museum (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter (#BWAforBLM) began in July. The group met at the New ...

Mon, February 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM UTC “My biggest goal was just wanting to make sure that artists of color had a platform where they could go, where they felt comfortable enough to just tell the story, ...