Jamon Jordan, Detroit's first official historian, teaches and retells the stories of Detroit's Black community.

In Detroit, where the Motown sound once echoed through the streets, there is a neighborhood that history nearly erased but whose musical legacy refuses to fade away. Black Bottom, Detroit’s lost ...

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom opened at the Detroit Repertory Theatre on Friday, Jan. 10 to a packed house. The show is the second production of the theatre’s 68th season. Evan Lewis Smith is the ...

Detroit’s dazzling musical history will be brought into focus this weekend at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African ...

In a rundown Chicago recording studio in 1927, tempers rise and simmering conflicts erupt when the “Mother of the Blues” and her band record a set of jazz and blues standards. Fiery and ...