Saxophonist Javon Jackson plays at Sculler’s Jazz Club in Boston on March 22nd. His newest albums include the collaboration “Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies,” released just before Nikki Giovanni’s ...

Davis gained celebrity in 1969 when the UC Regents, headed by then-governor Ronald Reagan, fired her as a UCLA philosophy ...

Roberta Flack announced in 2022 she had ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and could no longer sing.

Educators are working through how to improve outcomes for Black students as the federal government seeks to eliminate ...

For Flack's many admirers, she was a sophisticated and bold new presence in the music world and in the social and civil ...

Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) advocates for women’s empowerment through education, reflecting ...

her friends including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Angela Davis, whom Flack visited in prison while Davis faced charges — for which she was acquitted — for murder and kidnapping. Flack sang at the ...

Activism is in Esteban Cabeza de Baca's blood. He was born into a family of labor activists who traveled between California and New Mexico.

“I was teaching at Banneker Junior High in Washington ... her friends including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Angela Davis, whom Flack visited in prison while Davis faced charges — for which ...