Rock 'n' roll has been dominated by white musicians for decades. However, many of the Black musicians on this list are not only pioneers of the genre, their music still sells years after its ...

Meanwhile, the blues and the electric guitar would pave the way for Black American musicians to invent rock ‘n’ roll. By the 1970s, Black communities grew tired of the lack of opportunities ...

The star recently made headlines for noting the lack of recognition his music has received from Black awards shows, but he says his point was that Black is not a monolith, and rock and roll isn ...

Electric Purgatory is a documentary that examines the struggles of black rock musicians and the industry's ambivalence towards them. Director Raymond Gayle spent the better part of a year ...

BLACK ALLEY has been pushing the art of music to its rhythmic limits for some time now. Determined to create a unique musical elixir, Black Alley has taken the finest ingredients of rock, hip-hop and ...

Herbert Brewster, an activist in Black voter registration and ... and later in his career the “king of rock 'n' roll” cited gospel music as a key element of his style. Elvis also took away ...

When Jack Black got in front of a classroom of kids ... One could certainly argue that was the case for Billy Squier, whose 1984 music video for “Rock Me Tonite” effectively alienated a ...