The duo’s new album explores their relationship as a married couple and the harmonies that can unite even seemingly disparate sounds and styles.
Category: Black People
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A Sly Stone Primer: 15 Songs (and More) From a Musical Visionary
The Sly & the Family Stone leader is the subject of a new documentary directed by Questlove. Here’s what to know about his brilliant career and crushing addiction.
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Brooklyn’s Outlandish Hosts Black History Month Hike
Outlandish, a hiking store and adventure group in Brooklyn, is one of several organizations on a mission to encourage Black people to spend time outdoors.
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As Big Retailers Pull Back on D.E.I, What Happens to Emerging Black Sellers?
Black-owned brands got a foot in the door through accelerator programs at companies like Target and Amazon. Now they worry it might be closing.
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Beyoncé Finally Wins Album of the Year With ‘Cowboy Carter’
The superstar is the first Black woman to take the prize this century, and the fourth in Grammy history. It was her fifth nomination for the show’s top award.
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Only 3 Black Women Have Won the Grammys’ Top Award. Is Beyoncé Next?
Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill’s album of the year wins all came in the 1990s. Beyoncé’s fifth shot, for “Cowboy Carter,” arrives Sunday night.
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Barry Michael Cooper, ‘New Jack City’ Screenwriter, Dies at 66
After chronicling the crack boom of the 1980s as an investigative reporter, he had a high-profile but brief second career in Hollywood.
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Edmond Dédé’s Opera ‘Morgiane’ to Be Staged for the First Time
Almost 125 years after Edmond Dédé’s death, his magnum opus “Morgiane,” perhaps the oldest existing opera by a Black American, is to be staged for the first time.
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‘Nickel Boys’ Awakens Black Cinema’s Time Revolution
RaMell Ross, A.V. Rockwell, Raven Jackson and Garrett Bradley are the new Black directors chronicling Black life at a different speed.
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Online Therapy Boom Has Mainly Benefited Privileged Groups, Studies Find
Digital mental health platforms were supposed to expand access for the neediest patients. Researchers say that hasn’t happened.
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Starbucks Visitors Must Now Buy Something to Stay or Use Bathroom
Starbucks said visitors to the coffee shops would be required to buy something in order to use the restroom or stay in the store, as the company’s new chief executive responded to a decline in sales.