Gregg Johnson, President of the Valley NAACP, which covers the Naugatuck Valley, said the city of Shelton has accepted the holiday, despite its past racial tensions and ongoing efforts by the federal ...

I went from not writing much to just writing all the time,” he said. Johnson estimates more than 50 additional songs that he ...

Sly Stone, an electrifying musician, songwriter and showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the ...

Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early ...

Aaron Rodgers wearing a uniform that's not the Green Bay Packers' doesn't quite feel right? It wouldn't be the first time.

Today, keyboardist-vocalist Jordan is the sole remaining original member in War, but he’ll be joining the band’s three other surviving founders, Howard E. Scott (guitar, vocals), Harold Ray Brown ...

Jazz Chisholm Jr. wrapped up his minor league rehab assignment with Double-A Somerset on Sunday, going 0-for-3 with a strikeout as the designated hitter. In all, Chisholm played in three rehab ...

Viral video captured a group of white men in matching biker-gang vests spewing racial slurs as they violently attacked a black man at an Indiana bar, according to authorities and reports.

NEW ORLEANS — A jazz funeral was held Saturday in New Orleans for 19 Black individuals whose skulls were used in a racist scientific study in Germany more than 150 years ago. In the 1800s ...

All agreed on his genius, but as Chambers also notes, Ellington had his critics, especially the wealthy aristocratic and pioneering record producer and jazz entrepreneur John Hammond; he also concedes ...