Notable African-American Musicians
The following list includes African-American singers, composers, rappers, pianists, and other musicians who have contributed to the…
The Question: What's a Black Maria? The Answer: A "black maria" is a slang term for a police wagon. How did it get this name? We don't know. But here are two…
Distributor:Spoken Arts With New York City as his home, Black Cat roams through neighborhoods and streets to the rhythms of original music in a classical jazzy style. The voice of Avery Brooks…
Distributor:National Film Board of Canada The Black experience powerfully comes to life through techniques of painting on glass under an animation camera to create imaginative explosions of shapes…
actor, musicianBorn: 4/7/1969Birthplace: Los Angeles Black spent most of the mid- and late-1990s in relative obscurity, frequently playing offbeat sidekick characters. That all changed in 2000,…
MacataimeshekiakiakSauk leaderBorn: 1768Birthplace: Saukenuk, Ill. In the late 18th century, the Indians of the upper Mississippi Valley witnessed the replacement of the relatively sympathetic…
Oglala Lakota holy manBorn: 1863Birthplace: Little Powder River, Wyoming Black Elk's life encompassed the U.S.-Sioux wars, the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee…
publisherBorn: 1944Birthplace: Chicago, Ill. Black graduated from Trinity College in Washington, DC in 1966. She sold advertising for magazines such as Holiday and Travel & Leisure before…
singer, songwriterBorn: 2/4/1962Birthplace: Long Branch, New Jersey Raised in a suburb of Houston, Texas, he helped spark the surge in popularity of country music in the early 1990's. He released…
