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It’s that time of year again: Mother’s Day, and we’re here to celebrate it on #BlackMusicSunday, like we did last year. Who we dub “moms” are not always birth mothers. Many of us have been raised up with love by grandmas, aunties, stepmoms, older sisters, godmothers, mentors, or even family friends. My mom has passed on, and so have my aunties and godmothers, though they and their foremothers are always with me, in songs and in family stories. I can hear my mom talking in my ear when I start to...

Summer classical music in Chicago is much more than Grant Park and Ravinia. But first, Riccardo Muti closes out the season at the CSO.

Lawrence Jackson grew up in a mostly Black neighborhood, Park Heights; now he lives in a mostly White one, Homeland.

Democrats embrace celebrity. But Democratic politicians also treat Felicity Huffman, Woody Allen, and O.J. Simpson as pariahs today, the stench of real or alleged crimes too great to bear.

African scientists and technology could drive future black hole discoveries.

From the Keri Hilson to Dru Hill, here’s who posed for a photo at the annual celebration.

The Choral Arts Society of Washington gives the Portland-based composer Damien Geter's "An African-American Requiem" its East Coast premiere at the Kennedy Center on Monday.