Now Showing: MoMA's Film Exhibition on The Great Migration, 'A Road Three Hundred Years Long
A special exhibition for those of you in New York, happening at MoMA June 1 through June 12. The Department of Film’s companion series to...
B.B. (Blues Boy) King: Reigning Monarch of Da Blues
B.B. King, Pioneering Blues Musician, Singer-Songwriter, Guitarist. "...the blues came to be the foundation of much of African-American...
Watch: "Whoopi Goldberg presents Moms Mabley"
Acclaimed actress/comedienne Whoopi Goldberg directs and appears in this feature documentary about Jackie “Moms” Mabley, an...
It's Hard to be Cool
Miles Style In even the most conservative accounts of his life and music, 1955 is recognized as a watershed year in the career of Miles...
Sonny Rollins 'The Bridge'
The Great African-American Classical Art-Form Sonny Rollins; The Bridge Maestro tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' first recording after...
Sam Greenlee, whose movie “The Spook Who Sat by the Door” is a Cult Classic
Poet and novelist Sam Greenlee in 1973. His movie, “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” based on his book by the same name, became a classic...
Watch: Nelson George Doc 'Brooklyn Boheme' a Celebration of the Burough's Rich Artistic
Brooklyn Boheme is a love letter to a vibrant African American artistic community who resided in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill Brooklyn...
John Coltrane and Imamu Amiri Baraka
The Great African-American Classical Art-Form John Coltrane and Imamu Amiri Baraka "BLACK ART" Imamu Amiri Baraka reads Black Art Imamu...
Charlie "Bird" Parker the father of So-called Modern Jazz
The Great African-American Classical Art-Form Charlie "Bird" Parker Bird is the father of bebop. Parker or 'Bird' as he is famously...
Taye Diggs to star on Broadway this summer in “Hedwig”
Actor Taye Diggs will be taking over the title role in the Broadway production of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” Diggs is to begin his run...
