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Jazz, justice and Juneteenth: Wynton Marsalis and Bryan Stevenson join forces to honor Black protest
Associated Press via Yahoo News UK· 1 month agoBlack music traditions such as jazz are central to celebrations of Juneteenth, says civil rights...
The fabulous (and athletic) life of pro sports power couple Kelsey Plum and Darren Waller
INSIDER via Yahoo News UK· 1 year agoWNBA All-Star Kelsey Plum and NFL tight end Darren Waller got married — almost in secret — to form...
Letters: Communities felt the pain when subpostmasters were falsely accused
The Telegraph via Yahoo News UK· 7 months agoSIR – The SNP’s proposed law to make it illegal for parents, psychotherapists and others to try to...
How Black Actors Broke Through in Old Hollywood — Day to Day, Role to Role
Indiewire via Yahoo News UK· 5 months agoThat Black performers had limited opportunities in Hollywood movies of the ‘20s, '30s, and ‘40s is...
Barbra Streisand’s Planned 1962 Live Album to Finally Get a Release 60 Years Later
Variety via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoA live album by Barbra Streisand that had originally been planned as her debut album in 1962,...
25 Most Iconic Disney Characters
Variety via Yahoo News UK· 10 months agoDuring its first 100 years, the Walt Disney Co. has brought to life many of cinema’s iconic and revered fantasy figures — from a plucky mouse with a...
Raising the curtain: 15 Black, queer game-changers who made a mark on British culture
Attitude via Yahoo News UK· 10 months agoIn his book, Under Fire – Black Britain in Wartime, Stephen Bourne draws back the curtain on 15...
Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters Dies at 74
Variety via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoAnita Pointer, who rose to fame in the 1970s as a member of the hit sibling singing group the Pointer Sisters, died Saturday at age 74. The cause of...
Stanley Mills, Music Publisher Who Popularized ‘The Chicken Dance,’ Dies at 91
Variety via Yahoo News UK· 2 years agoStanley Mills, part of the prosperous Mills Music family publishing dynasty who popularized “The...
‘When you turn it on, it’s like blowing snot at you’: How the Hammond organ revolutionised rock
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoWe all know the sounds of the mighty Hammond organ when we hear them, from the ghostly sorrow and...