Duke Ellington

Dave Chappelle booed, labeled ‘bigot’ by some students at high school alma mater

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ASCAP honors Black History Month with songwriter, artist campaign

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

'Chickens come home to roost': Black reactions to JFK's death in 1963

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Author-critic Albert Murray dead at 97

NEW YORK (AP) — Albert Murray, the influential novelist and critic who celebrated black culture, scorned black separatism and was once praised by Duke Ellington as the ‘unsquarest man I know,’ died Sunday…
/ August 20, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Dule Hill to join Broadway’s ‘After Midnight’

NEW YORK (AP) — Dule Hill will be tapping into his dancing roots when he joins Broadway’s “After Midnight,” a musical celebrating Duke Ellington’s years at the famous Cotton Club nightclub in Harlem…
/ July 24, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Fantasia eyes Broadway in Duke Ellington show

NEW YORK (AP) – Grammy Award-winner Fantasia Barrino will star in the Broadway-bound ‘After Midnight,’ a musical revue celebrating Duke Ellington’s years at the famous Cotton Club…
/ July 18, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

How American music has been Africanized

OPINION – In North America, music has been one of the sanctuaries that has allowed for the deepest expression of West African standards of aesthetics…
/ August 18, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Jazz photographer Herman Leonard dies at 87

LOS ANGELES (AP) – He started in the late 1940s and left a rich chronicle of a musical era with photos taken in New York, Paris and London through the 1960s…
/ August 18, 2010