arts-entertainment

In a rare appearance, Lauryn?Hill commanded a stage Saturday at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival as thousands of...

Oprah Winfrey is now a member of the Illinois Broadcasters Association’s Hall of Fame. Film critic Roger Ebert was among...

It’s time again for the annual Spirit of Democracy Awards. Produced by the?National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP), this...

University of West Virginia junior combo forward and Mount Vernon?s very own Kevin Jones has decided to add his name...

By now the entire free world knows that the New York Knicks have been eliminated from the playoff competition. And...

The Soweto-born soprano who plays Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in a new opera says the story of the “mother of the nation”...

A South African photographer is being honored for helping expose apartheid’s brutality to the world with a picture that ended...

The Broadway cast of “Fela” introduced Afrobeat superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti to hundreds of thousands of new American fans. Now the...

Samuel L. Jackson will make his Broadway debut this fall as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Producers of “The...