LARA: TODAY MARKS THE START OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH. BLACK MUSICIANS IN KANSAS CITY ARE JOINING TOGETHER TO SHARE THEIR MUSIC AND TELL THEIR STORIES KMBC 9’S JACKSON KURTZ IS LIVE FROM THE WESTIN AT ...

When historian Blair LM Kelley began writing her latest book, “Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class,” she started with her own family. “They came from folks who were agricultural workers ...

Providence, Rhode Island-based singer-songwriter Jake Blount spent COVID-19's quarantine evolving into the unwitting face and hands of Afrofuturism's banjo-strumming past, present, and future. 2020 ...

Hear songs by Amythyst Kiah, Kara Jackson, Tray Wellington and more. By Lindsay Zoladz “Today Black folk performers have reached a critical mass and level of exposure not seen since the early decades ...

Cliff Notez remembers the first time they felt truly included in the world of folk music. Growing up, the Boston artist consumed a steady diet of the genre in their mother’s car, where mainstream ...

A musician sheds light on the captivating story of Black folk music. Rhode Island has long been a haven for folk music. The Newport Folk Festival has featured icons from Bob Dylan to Joni Mitchell.

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In 2015, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club started re-releasing its work through its own imprint, SCAC Unincorporated Records, which included connected groups like Denver Broncos UK (DBUK), Munly & the ...

Black musicians have always had a place in the history of country music, despite the music industry’s push to label white folk music as hillbilly music, and Black folk music as “race records.” “Black ...

“Black Folk Could Fly,” a posthumous book of Randall Kenan’s collected essays, provides a window into his life and heart. Credit...London Ladd Supported by By Kinohi Nishikawa When you purchase an ...