Afro Sheen helped shape an era, brightening a hairstyle and bankrolling a TV phenomenon while building a business that lifted a community. From Chicago, Joan and George Johnson turned Johnson Products ...

Brassroots District: LA ‘74 pays homage to the Southland’s musical past and its historical figures.

The first phase of Olympic ice dance was once an aristocratic affair - ruffles and frills flying as athletes performed romantic tangos, foppish quick steps and Viennese waltzes with straight backs and ...

More than 300 students and their families celebrated Black History Month and Long Beach’s Cesar Chavez Elementary School.

Black joy takes center stage in “The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body,” a work by playwright Lisa B. Thompson— a scholar‑artist known for satirical comedies and piercing dramas that challenge ...

The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, while staged as a play, is more of an artistic poetic reading. Lisa B. Thompson’s brief 80-minute work, currently on stage at The Black Rep, examines the ...

The global pop superstar chats with legendary author and fellow marathoner Haruki Murakami on the sublime simplicity of running—and how it nourishes the creative life.

MILAN - To make the Olympic team, American ice dancers Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko had to figure out the right way to die. They had spent the season trying to tell the story of ...

From Paris stages to WWII spy missions, Josephine Baker fought racism and antisemitism while inspiring generations worldwide.

FRIDAY, FEB. 27 Kansas Silent Film Festival, programs at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., White Concert Hall, Washburn University, 1700 SW Jewell Ave., Topeka. Silent films with live music. Free admission; ...

Beat-Herder returns to the Ribble Valley this summer as the much-loved independent festival celebrates its 21st anniversary ...