Source: PAUL DEFOSSEUX,KUN TIAN / Getty June is Black Music Month. While this is a time to celebrate all the bangers and musical contributions made by Black musicians, it’s also important to look back at the struggles they have historically faced. From unpaid royalties, white artists stealing covering songs by Black artists, to unfair label […]

Source: Warner Bros Entertainment / Proximity Media In the hushed moments before the Surreal Montage in Ryan Coogler’s Sinners becomes a portal that transcends time, space, and language, Delta Slim leans toward Sammie and says, “Tell ’em who you are, where you from.”  It lands like advice, but it feels closer to ritual instruction. Because […]

Source: Warner Bros Entertainment / Proximity Media When the ngoni enters the Juke Joint in Sinners, the room shifts. The sound is small, sharp, ancient, almost easy to miss if you’re only listening for volume. But that little stringed voice opens a door. Suddenly, the blues is not alone in Mississippi. It has ancestors in […]

Source: Westend61 / Getty In honor of Black Music Month, I believe it is necessary to give flowers to my very favorite medium of expression: music.  Coming from a musical family — and having multiple symbols of music tattooed on my skin — I know intimately that few things can capture the full spectrum of […]

Source: Michael Tullberg / Getty Rapper Young MC and Grammy-nominated singer Morris Day have officially withdrawn from President Trump’s Freedom 250 Festival in Washington, D.C., an event tied to the Great American State Fair celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary from June 25 through July 10, 2026. Meanwhile, C+ C Music Factory frontman Freedom Williams is […]