Gene Simmons, the bassist and co-lead singer of KISS, will testify before a Senate panel next week on legislation to require radio corporations to pay performers for playing their music, the ...

Baltimore, MD — October 2025 — The AFRO-American Newspapers, known today as AFRO News, has earned national recognition on two Feedspot rankings — the “45 Best Black News Websites of 2025” and the ...

The sound of freedom rung at the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music's American Music Honors program April 26 at the Pollak Theatre on the campus of Monmouth University — and now ...

PLACE. A FIRST OF ITS KIND MUSIC PROGRAM IS SOON COMING TO WINSTON-SALEM. UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS IS LAUNCHING THE AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDENTS TO LEARN ...

The Yale department that studies people of African descent in the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America has changed its name to the Black Studies Department, after 55 years of being called ...

In my humble opinion, there are only a handful of pop culture artists who have reached the kind of truly global, era-defining impact that Bad Bunny has. Of course, there was Michael Jackson, Prince, ...

PAST ISSUES OF THE AFRO. SO WHEN YOU SEE 1947, IT’S FROM THE YEAR 1947. HISTORY FILLS THESE SHELVES, TELLING THE STORIES THAT BACK THEN WERE IGNORED BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. WHEN YOU OPEN THIS UP, YOU ...

America cannot afford to whitewash its past. Yet that is exactly what is at stake in the current review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. To question whether slavery and ...

Aug. 19 (UPI) --CBS and Dick Clark Productions reached a new deal Tuesday that will keep the American Music Awards show on CBS and Paramount+ through 2030. The next edition of the gala is to take play ...

Jennifer Lopez performs with dancers onstage during the 2025 American Music Awards at BleauLive Theater at Fontainebleau Las Vegas on May 26, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Credit: Ethan Miller/Getty ...

The linguist John McWhorter on how language around racial identity is evolving. By David Leonhardt and John McWhorter Produced by Jillian Weinberger In this episode of “The Opinions,” the linguist and ...

Early American banjo music is Black music. The banjo was created by enslaved African Americans, and according to the Smithsonian Institute, up until the 1830s, the banjo was exclusively an African ...