arts-entertainment

Michelle?Obama chose a red Alexander McQueen gown with black details for the state dinner she and President Barack Obama were...

Aretha Franklin’s unheralded recordings at Columbia Records will get another perspective with an expansive 12-disc box set that makes the...

With a voice that wavers delightfully between a husky alto to a cool contralto, Audrey Shakir provides an unusual third...

America’s first family of jazz ? patriarch Ellis Marsalis Jr. and four of his sons ? were presented the nation’s...

Oprah?Winfrey says she’s “grateful that we weren’t embarrassed” during the much-anticipated first weekend that her new OWN network was on...

From the streets to the studios. Ted Williams, whose deep, velvety radio voice and touching story prompted an outpouring of...

Growing up in segregated Memphis, Tenn., during the Jim Crow era, Augustus White III knew about those certain places off-limits...

The Oprah Winfrey Network launching Saturday is wary of promising too much of a good thing ? Winfrey herself. In...

Teena?Marie’s last album, “Congo Square,” was titled after a historical meeting place for slaves in New Orleans, featured a tribute...