TN Smithsonian American Art Museum Rhythmic Blues National Museum of African American History and Culture Costume worn by Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues National Museum of ...

As the flood waters rose, many blues artists were inspired to write songs about the disaster and describe the experience of being in a flood. The Mississippi Delta is famous for more than floods ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it ... Cashman, Sean D. (1991). African Americans & the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990. New York: New York University Press. Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and ...

Imani Perry’s “Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of ... “An admission,” she declares late in the book: “I am very much an American, and that is an uneasy title for me.

Maya Angelou for KQED in 1968 called Blacks, Blues, Black!, which examines the influence of African American culture on modern American society. Includes scenes of Dr. Angelou in the studio ...