A Texas public relations firm with clients in San Antonio has changed its name after the company was barraged with social media messages questioning why they used a name most affiliated with a 1937 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black America has a long and winding history of using songs for defiance and consolation. Testimonies from slave ship sailors ...
Billie Holiday’s recording of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit” has stirred and haunted generations of listeners. A new article from the Journal of African American History, titled “Professional ...
Sixty-five years ago, on July 17, 1959, Billie Holiday died at Metropolitan Hospital in New York. The 44-year-old singer arrived after being turned away from a nearby charity hospital on evidence of ...
Black America has a long and winding history of using songs for defiance and consolation. Testimonies from slave ship sailors recall how kidnapped Africans during the Atlantic slave trade sang to send ...