Cécile McLorin Salvant brings her ‘Ghost Song’ to Miami

Twerking. Read moreCultural side of twerking explored by Olujimi Dance Collective

The 29th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration in Coconut Grove was held Sunday in person for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the area’s first Black house of worship, the former St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church. Read moreSt. Mary Missionary Baptist Church at heart of MLK event

Black woman whose cells advanced medical research will be honored in hometown Read moreHenrietta Lacks statue to replace Robert E. Lee

You try to stay on top of things. Read moreStories of trailblazers – and a woman who reported on them

Sam Cooke’s music returns to the Aventura Arts & Cultural Center Jan. 22 in Darrian Ford’s “The Cooke Book: The Music of Sam Cooke” tribute concert, 59 years after Cooke’s last show in Miami. The show celebrates the 92nd anniversary of the beloved artist’s brief life and the path he pave… Read moreDarrian Ford brings Sam Cooke to life

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is working on a memoir. Brown Jackson, the first Black woman appointed to the court, is calling the book “Lovely One.” Read moreJustice Brown Jackson working on ‘Lovely One’ memoir

The comedy “Some Like It Hot” would seem too hot to revisit these days. Easy laughs at the concept of men wearing dresses and then hitting on horrified other men? No, thank you. Broadway – ever inclusive, forever progressive – would never touch that old, irredeemable chestnut, would it? Read moreBroadway’s ‘Some Like It Hot’ blazes righteous path

A monthslong Toni Morrison tribute at Princeton University, where the Nobel laureate taught for 17 years, will range from music created and performed by Grammy-winning vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant to a spring lecture series and three-day symposium featuring Miami-based award-winning autho… Read morePrinceton University plans Toni Morrison tribute

Rapper and actor Common has made his Broadway debut in the play “Between Riverside and Crazy” and what he sees from the stage is something he never imagined: a multi-cultural audience hanging on to every word. Read moreCommon revels in his Broadway stage debut

A Miami-based lifestyle and fashion photographer is spotlighting 40 of the city’s most prominent and trailblazing women in a new coffee table book.  Read more“Miami Women” book showcase Miami trailblazers

Holiday classic more relevant with representation Read moreBlack dancers shine in 'The Chocolate Nutcracker'

The Black experience takes center stage at Broward Center Read moreDarius Daughtry to debut ‘Theatrical Mixtape Volume IV’

The internationally acclaimed Jazz in The Gardens has begun to release its 2023 lineup, which will include artists Jill Scott, Sean Paul and El DeBarge performing at the Hard Rock Stadium March 11 and 12. The music festival is working toward announcing more artists in the upcoming week. Read moreJazz in The Gardens releasing 2023 lineup

Energetic group aspires to bring hope alive Read moreSoweto Gospel Choir to headline Gospel Sunday

The New Canon Chamber Collective will open its inaugural season with a concert at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ Amaturo Theater Saturday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. Read moreChamber Collective opens season with ‘American Soul’

Oolite Arts, one of Miami’s largest support organizations for local artists, will offer its resident artists a $1,000-a-month housing stipend to ease the impact of the city’s affordability crisis, thanks to new funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Read moreOolite Arts to offer artists housing stipend

The Magic City returns to the global spotlight next week with the much-anticipated Miami Art Week, running from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4, and this year’s event marks the 20th-anniversary celebration of Art Basel Miami. And while hundreds of artists will converge in South Florida, more Black creator… Read moreBlack influence on Miami Art Week

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will debut a significant, thought-provoking new exhibition, “Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures,” in March of next year. Read moreTrayvon Martin’s flight suit joins historical exhibition

Teenage climate activists in Nigeria’s largest city are recycling trash into runway outfits for a “Trashion Show.” Read moreNigerian teens create fashion from trash to fight pollution

Dhonielle Clayton is not just a bestselling author of young adult fiction. She’s an organizer, a former teacher and a founder of the grassroots publishing movement We Need Diverse Books. She’s also the kind of friend who can convince five of her well-known peers to collaborate on a single no… Read more6 popular Black authors co-write teen romance ‘Whiteout’

Head downtown to see the authors Read moreTop Six Miami Book Fair Picks

Oolite Arts announced the 2022 winners of The Ellies, Miami’s Visual Arts Awards, Oct. 26 at The Bass. This year marks the program’s fifth anniversary. Read moreOolite Arts raises voices of local artists

Devin Allen admits that he occasionally behaved like a knucklehead growing up in Baltimore. But he was not so irreverent as a 10th grader that he could see an image of Emmett Till’s open casket and not find it arresting. Read moreEmmett Till images have multigenerational impact on artists

As a Black man, architect Germane Barnes says he values African migration because it is the essence of his ancestors. In an exhibition of his work, “Germane Barnes: Unsettled” at the Nina Johnson gallery, he explores both memory and identity related to these values. Read moreExploring Black identity in ‘Unsettled’ art exhibition

Revival production features Black-led cast Read moreWendell Pierce in ‘Death of a Salesman’