With the backdrop of the nascent 1930s blues scene of Southern Louisiana, Angwin writer and artist Whitney LeBlanc's "Blues in the Wind" gives readers a no-holds-barred look at the lives of southern ...

Legendary Detroit playwright Pearl Cleage strongly believes in letting characters lead a story. “Nobody comes to the theater to be preached at,” Cleage told the Free Press. “And I’m the daughter of a ...

HUNTINGTON — After experiencing a rough childhood here in Huntington, the blues and gospel singer known as Diamond Teeth Mary hopped on a train at the age of 13 to look for a better life. Mary, whose ...

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Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum, soul-blues-rocker Don Nix, Stax Records stalwart Deanie Parker and hitmaking hip-hop producer Carlos Broady are among those set to be enshrined in the Memphis ...

At the age of 74, the writer Pearl Cleage is about to have a moment in Chicago. Next week, the Goodman Theatre opens the first Chicago production of Cleage’s 2010 play, “The Nacirema Society,” a piece ...

Sam Carr, 83, a drummer who was considered an anchor in the blues scene that continues to draw fans to the poverty-stricken Mississippi Delta region where the music form was born, died Monday of ...