The Honduran musician, one of the most recognized proponents of a Caribbean culture dating to the 17th century, died Monday ...

Singer Yallunder, whose real name is Yolanda Nyembezi, has passed away recently. Here is what we know about her ...

Martínez was one of 13 people to die when a small passenger plane crashed after take-off near mainland Honduras ...

The Honduran musician brought the local Afro Caribbean genre to international attention and served as his country’s first ...

With it being five years since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, we revisit the Black figures we lost to the disease.

Fugard, who died March 8, was a white South African whose plays explored the consequences of Apartheid. He was later awarded a Tony Award for lifetime achievement. Originally broadcast in 1986.

FILE - Jazz musician Roy Ayers, background plays an African Marimba instrument during his workshop with young music artist at ...

part of the era’s Great Migration of African Americans out of the South. Mr. Butler loved all kinds of music as a child and was a good enough singer that a friend suggested he come to perform at ...

The singer died Monday. She was 88 ... where she played piano and sang in the choir at Lomax African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Her classical piano skills were so adept that she received ...

After touring Tennessee State University in Nashville, the group visited the African American Music Museum. It was there Wilson proudly told his teacher he had been accepted into Southern University.

NEW YORK >> Roberta Flack, the silky-voiced Grammy-winning singer whose sultry ballads “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” ...

The world said goodbye to a man who’s been described as one of the greatest American actors of the 20th century. Gene Hackman, who was found dead along with his ...