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Walking means something. It is not just a step pattern. It is a declaration, a way of holding down Blackness, neighborhood, lineage and the people.

Oprah is in the hot seat with many Whitney Houston fans after claiming the late soul icon fell on her show back in 2009 while high on drugs.

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2026 NBA Draft recap: Michigan players shine, draft steals emerge, including Dailyn Swain, Ebuka Okorie, and Cameron Carr.

Nina Simone and Same Cooke are two Black artists who decided the message was more important than their commercial success.

From Whitney Houston to Aretha Franklin, producer and record executive Clive Davis had a hand in shaping some of pop and R&B’s biggest names. 

As Big Chief Shaka Zulu explained, when drum machine, lyric, rhythm, and movement lock in, dancers enter trance.

Hundreds of days of sewing, prayer, thought, sacrifice, creative energy, and communal labor gather in the beadwork.

The brilliance of Ryan Coogler's Sinners Surreal Montage is it doesn't treat Black music as a straight line, but rather as a circle.

The Surreal Montage sequence in "Sinners" doesn’t move like a history lesson; it moves the way memory does, vivid, out of order, alive.

The history of Black music is unfortunately filled with exploitative contracts, unpaid royalties, and stolen music sold as “covers.”

The No. 2 overall pick in this year's draft is transitioning from college to the pros as seamlessly as we've seen any player in recent years.