Kris Connor / vadimrysev / Getty September 11 will unfortunately always bring memories of sadness for the thousands of lives lost in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers in NYC 25 years ago today. However, many survivors used their harrowing experiences to help rebuild the city over the years and better the community […]

Source: UCG / Getty Most of us have songs that live so deeply in our memory, we can recite the lyrics on command years after the last time we listened to them. When we hear those songs again, even decades later, we enter a form of sonic time travel; the lyrics naturally repopulate in our […]

✕ June is Black Music Month, and NewsOne has been celebrating all month long. Stephen Hill, former president of programming for BET, sat down with us to speak on what he believes is the “sauce of soul music.” “The sauce of soul music is that there’s always love present,” Hill says at the start of […]

Source: On Monday, the legendary music producer Clive Davis died at the age of 94. As noted by our sister site, BOSSIP, “In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, his longtime representative Aliza Rabinoff said Davis “passed away peacefully from age-related illness” while surrounded by family and loved ones.” A five-time Grammy winner, Davis played a […]

Source: June is, among other things, Black Music Month, and if we’re going to talk about Black music, we have to talk about protest music. But if we’re going to talk about protest music, we have to talk about sacrifice, and if we’re going to talk about Black music, protest music and what was sacrificed […]