Stanley Nelson and Nicole London talk the roots of funk music and freedom. We Want The Funk! is now available on PBS.

Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically ...

One of the more puzzling live albums of all time came out in 2000. It featured songs from a two-night stand with The Black Crowes and Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin.

In a feature-length rockumentary on Sky Arts, The Selecter's Pauline Black looks back on her life and music career ...

Curtis Mayfield was one of the strongest musical voices during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and no song cemented ...

Her debut album, Little Girl Blue, was deemed a commercial failure, but it helped to establish Simone as a stunning new voice for American jazz. In subsequent years, Simone managed to break into the ...

"This moment that seems like a setback is actually a setup," LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, told theGrio.

With 97,000 members worldwide, the ICE exists to improve lives by ensuring the world has the engineering capacity and infrastructure systems it needs to enable our planet and our people to thrive. How ...

Funk music was a bold sound that perfectly encapsulated post-civil rights Black Pride. 'We Want The Funk!' tells the story of ...

Long time ago, though.” Sixty years ago, the Black social club that once occupied that corner hosted a jazz concert that is ...

Featuring a new foreword by the late Nikki Giovanni and interviews with Marc Lamont Hill and rapper Noname, Prose to the ...

Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice ...