At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

While traveling through the South collecting music for the Library of Congress, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax ventured onto ...

Elvis Presley was a lot of things: rockstar, actor, soldier, style icon...magician? Miguel Conner makes a compelling case for the latter.

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Preston Lauterbach's new book, "Before Elvis," celebrates the many Black artists who shaped Elvis Presley’s creative vision ...

An accomplished artist himself, he and his brother created one of the few showcases in the U.S. for an emerging generation of Black artists in the late 1960s.

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The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.