A four-alarm fire on Wednesday evening severely damaged a building in Harlem where the jazz legend Billie Holiday once lived.

Brooklyn poet Shanelle Gabriel will host a star-studded evening featuring R&B singer Lydia Caesar. The Billie Holiday Theatre ...

Jazz singer Billie Holiday vs the US Government?! Her song Strange Fruit written by Abel Meeropol about the treatment of ...

So perhaps it’s worth avoiding this particular song, dubbed ‘the most depressing song ever recorded.’ Say what you will if Blue Monday is an actual thing or just a myth/advertising stunt, but ...

Gerald Norwood is a Wichita collector of "African Americana" — letters, legal papers and other artifacts of the black ...

Ernest “Ernie” Mae Miller was born in 1927 in Austin, Texas. She was the granddaughter of the famous educator LC Anderson. He ...

What is considered the most sombre song ever recorded? Orchestrated by Rezső Seress in 1933 and covered by Billie Holiday, this song is considered the most depressing ever committed to record ...

Black American music is music of the spirit, a profound diversity of lessons to be enjoyed. Never duplicated but often imitated, its drumbeats are heartbeats of the inner person that ignites ...

Yes, Gloomy Sunday has been covered by numerous artists over the years, but the most famous and influential version came from jazz legend Billie Holiday in 1941. Her haunting rendition ...

Despite this, Philadelphia has given us its fair share of heavy hitters. Some of the most iconic acts from the City of ...

In the early 1970s, Berry Gordy decided to take Motown to Hollywood, and he made a gamble on the first film he put the ...