Edward Kennedy Ellington was born into the world on April 29, 1899 inWashington, D.C. Duke’s parents, Daisy Kennedy Ellington and James EdwardEllington, served as ideal role models for young Duke, and ...

One such icon who died in the same year as Mitchell released this career-changing record was Duke Ellington, an artist who had served as a major inspiration to the Canadian musician. The American ...

This year's Black History Month theme is "African Americans and Labor" focusing on the ways work impacts "the collective ...

Explore Black History Month events across Houston, from storytelling and workshops to performances and markets.

Two of the great pioneering geniuses of jazz are united on this epochal record, created from sessions cut in April 1961 when Duke Ellington sat in as pianist with Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars, a ...

Betty Ellington, a civil rights activist, shares a message about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. Elizabeth Warren tells ...

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In April 2022, before the funeral of Dickie Rock’s wife Judy in Rathfarnham, Paddy Cole told me he had just been diagnosed ...

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The Altadena fire wiped out much of a historic black enclave in this picturesque town in the San Gabriel Valley.