FORT WORTH, Texas — Gospel legend and Fort Worth native Kirk Franklin will receive the Black Music Icon Award next week ahead of the 2025 Grammys. Franklin will receive the award, which celebrates ...

Classix 102.9 will be shifting its format starting Saturday by adding Southern soul to its existing R&B songs from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Southern soul is a combination of styles including ...

In February, you can celebrate Black History Month with a variety of WTTW programming that explores the political, artistic, ...

And the Black guests who have appeared on the show ... Singer and the prolific singer graced the stage with various old school bangers such as “At Last” by Etta James and “A Man’s World ...

For much of my life, country music felt like a locked door — a mysterious place that invited no one who looked like me. It seemed firmly rooted in a different world, one sprinkled with images of ...

Gospel music legend and Fort Worth native Kirk Franklin will be honored with the Black Music Icon Award at the Recording ...

Performances kick off at 8 a.m. daily and go into the evening Thursday-Saturday, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, Gaiser Student Center, 1933 ...

Black people ... winning gospel girl group the Clark Sisters. At nine years old, she secured the Best Children’s Performance Stellar Award for her vocals on her mother’s song “The Will ...

Reflecting on a transformative residency program, the jazz vocalist now nominated for her first Grammy Award says her album ...

And people are still adding new songs to that folk tradition, from Lauryn Hill's "Black ... the gospel song into the cultural fabric as a song leader at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.

In 2006, the William Penn Senior High School ... popular music of the day. “I didn’t know how much we were appreciated by people,” he told the interviewer. “I was 20 years old.” ...