In 1966, Simone wrote and performed “Four Women,” a musical portrait of different stereotyped Black women who were exploited ...

As a part of its Spring 2025 Season, The Billie Holiday Theatre - one of the nation’s preeminent arts and culture organizations - presents the next edition of its new theater series “Black Narrative” ...

President Herbert Hoover and first lady Lou Hoover hosted the traditional New Year’s Reception at the White House on ...

We speak to Eddy Hackett of immersive theatre specialists The Lost Estate about the jazz-infused 58th Street and its ...

Suzi Quatro is a hopeless romantic at heart - and the "first proper love song" she heard is testament to that as it always makes her cry. Read more here.

Mikey Madison’s surprise victory at the Oscars has people talking about historic upsets, but no shocker was more dramatic ...

Billie Jean Anderson, 95, of Mentor, passed away February 24, 2025 at Enclave of Newell Creek, Mentor. She was born February 22, 1930 in Jackson, MI to the late Thomas and Frances Lennox.

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman ... a Blues singer from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s, back to life onstage. "Blues is ... I call it the first ...

Thornetta Davis as Bessie Smith (from left), Sky Covington as Billie Holiday, Veronique Musique as Nancy Wilson ... a Blues singer from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s, back to life onstage.

Jazz singer Alex McArthur and the Buffalo Jazz Collective will perform the music of World War II on Friday at the Kenan Center’s Taylor Theatre in Lockport. As part of the “Secret Weapons of WWII” ...

Los Angeles — The name Hazel Scott should probably be as well known as Billie Holiday or Lena Horne ... well-known entertainment figures of the 1930s and '40s, playing in some of New York ...