Performance venues across the country are anxiously awaiting a post-pandemic environment when they can throw open their doors to waiting crowds and hear the sweet sound of thunderous applause. Read more

You don’t have time to do a rhyme. Read more

The first Black president of an American college is being honored with a sculpture installed in the Vermont city where he was born in 1826. Read more

Pete Docter’s “Soul” features stairway-to-heaven visions of the afterlife, a pre-birth “before” realm where souls are glowing turquoise orbs and an in-between spiritual realm trafficked by some kind of psychedelic pirate. And yet, kind of magically, it’s about “just regular old living.” Read more

If Yahya Abdul-Mateen II had been told nearly a decade ago that he’d trade in reading blueprints for movie scripts while he worked as a city planner in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community, he would have checked his watch. Read more

“I’ve always seen art as a way to better understand my culture and roots,” said art collector Jorge M. Pérez, who was born in Argentina to Cuban-exiled parents. Read more

Your favorite basketball player loves getting buckets. Read more

“One Night in Miami,” a fictional account of a single unforgettable evening when four Black American legends – Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke – met up in a South Florida motel room, will premiere New Year’s Day at Miami Dade College’s Tower Theater at 1508 SW 8th St. Read more

This time of year, Miami would usually be bustling with art lovers from around the world. Still, all hope is not lost. Over the past three months, some museums have reopened to the public and the arts have been making something of a comeback. Within this environment, the Haitian Cultural Art… Read more

Charley Pride, one of country music’s first Black superstars whose rich baritone on such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” helped sell millions of records and made him the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. He was 86. Read more

A decade after publishing his memoir “Decoded,” Jay-Z is forming a more lasting partnership with the book industry. Read more

Actress Carol Sutton, a fixture on stages in her native New Orleans who built a steady career on the big and small screen, including roles in 1989’s “Steel Magnolias” and the TV series “Queen Sugar,” has died of complications from COVID-19, according to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell. Sut… Read more

Painter Guy Stanley Philoche, a star in the New York art world, had wanted to treat himself to a fancy watch after a hugely successful gallery show. Then the pandemic hit, and he feared for all the struggling artists who haven’t been so lucky. Read more

Self-improvement can be a difficult journey. It’s often an arduous process that takes time to work through and move toward. But Jeezy, who burst onto the national music scene in meteoric fashion 15 years ago with his accounts of street life and drug dealing, is relaying a new message on his … Read more

Roddy Ricch is the king of Apple Music: The rapper has the music platform’s most-streamed song and album of the year. Read more

For artist Nathan Delinois (aka Nate Dee), Miami Art Week is usually a frantic run from one place to another. Read more

Despite the heavily anticipated Art Basel event being canceled this year, art enthusiasts can still look forward to various events across the city beginning this month. Read more

The raucous Mardi Gras parades where riders on elaborate floats toss trinkets to adoring throngs have been canceled in New Orleans because the close-packed crowds could spread the novel coronavirus. Read more

Former President Barack Obama’s “A Promised Land” sold nearly 890,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada within 24 hours of its release, putting it on track to be the bestselling presidential memoir in modern history. Read more

One of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault on a Central Park jogger has a memoir coming out in the spring. Read more

For Steve McQueen, bringing back the London of his childhood began with remembering the scents of his youth. Read more

For Grammy-winning international star Angelique Kidjo, her artistry and her activism inform each other because music has the power to connect beyond skin color, language or countries. Read more

A 16-foot-tall bronze bust of a Black woman by artist Simone Leigh has been installed in the heart of the University of Pennsylvania’s campus, and is being called an “impressive and challenging” addition to the Ivy League school. Read more

You can’t stand to watch another happily-ever-after movie again. Read more

They designed epic floral statements in limited time with some very intense judges, but contestants on the new reality competition series “Full Bloom” did not wilt under pressure. Read more