Ashawnta Jackson

In the 1950s, the covers of most jazz records featured abstract designs. By the late 1960s, album aesthetics better reflected the times and the musicians.

While going out on a date may seem like a natural thing to do these days, it wasn't always the case.

The Black-owned club became a Great Falls hotspot, welcoming all to a music-filled social venue for almost thirty years.

Once a powerful voice in the Black press, Coleman all but disappeared from the literary landscape of the American Midwest after her death in 1948.

Asian American artists who performed for primarily white audiences in the 1930s and ’40s both challenged and solidified racial boundaries in the United States.

The cosmic collision of Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway.

How did record collecting and stereophile culture come to exclude women as consumers and experts?

Rumors that enslaved Black New Yorkers were planning a revolt spread across Manhattan even more quickly than the fires for which they were being blamed.

Prohibition—and its newly created underground economy—changed the way women lived, worked, and socialized.

Women have been punching each other in the face (during boxing matches) since the early 1700s.

The story of Morris Slater, aka Railroad Bill, prompts us to ask how the legend of the "American outlaw" changes when race is involved.