Every week for Black History Month, World Cafe correspondent John Morrison is highlighting a different trailblazer and maverick of Black music history.

Louisiana is restarting death penalty executions next week for the first time in 15 years, using nitrogen gas to execute ...

We see how each of these topics affects Black people, and what progress has ... Barber II, and academic and activist Angela Davis appear in multiple episodes. Though the topics are relevant ...

The actress was just 22 and a newcomer to movies when she was nominated for the role of Betty, an aspiring screenwriter, in the Hollywood-skewering classic.

As he began to speak in front of an audience including his wife, Betty, a smoke bomb ... his friend Ossie Davis called him "a prince – our own black shining prince!". His memoir, "The ...

The NEA Jazz Master tenor saxophonist George Coleman is known for his memorable opening solo on Herbie Hancock’s title tune “ Maiden Voyage ” (Blue Note 1965). That hardy muscular sound was his entré ...

Don’t call it a renaissance. Or some mid-career, midlife metamorphosis. The actress is doing what she’s always done: dominate ...

Louisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Tuesday, it's first in 15 years. There are 56 other inmates on death row in the state. Here's where they're from.

A home on Rumstick Road, in Barrington, recently sold for $2,550,000. The home, which is on a 1.27 acre lot, has five ...

Virtuosic digital artistry is on show in Serwah Attafuah’s installation The Darkness Between the Stars, currently showing at ...