Saxophonist Javon Jackson plays at Sculler’s Jazz Club in Boston on March 22nd. His newest albums include the collaboration ...

By Nehru OdehProfessor Niyi Osundare is a man of many parts. He defies a single description too. Many describe him as a multiple award-winning poet, writer, academic, activist, scholar, essayist, ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

An unprecedented exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris explores the presence and influence of Black artists in the city ...

The artist was a fixture in the neighborhood for more than a decade, known for her risqué paintings — "the embodiment of this extremely important, extremely central Chicago archetypical artist," one ...

Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

Canadian artist Alan Belcher has pulled out of a show at the Buffalo nonprofit Hallwalls over Trump's annexation threats.

Black history was celebrated in the North Allegheny School District with a full day of activities March 6 at Ingomar Middle ...

Exeter LitFest aims to shine a spotlight on local talent in the Exeter area, as well as bring in featured authors and poets.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a free pi day pie potluck, comedy against cancer, Mobius performance art called “Slay,” Ukrainian folk-rock, a St. Patrick’s fun ...

Sarwar is a writer, artist and community activist who shares Altadena poet laureate honors with writer Lester Graves Lennon.

Forget reggaeton or rap: for children in rural Cuba the epitome of cool is writing and singing a ten-line poem -- a art form ...