In Detroit, where the Motown sound once echoed through the streets, there is a neighborhood that history nearly erased but whose musical legacy refuses to fade away. Black Bottom, Detroit’s lost ...

Downtown Detroit’s Music Hall was bustling. Piano and trumpet melodies ricocheted off the walls during sound check as crew members polished a brick wall backdrop onstage. In the hour before their ...

The inaugural production held in Madison Arts Center’s new cabaret space is the third in Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company’s August Wilson’s American Century Cycle Experience, “Ma Rainey’s Black ...

Today, the neighborhood West of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River and home to the campuses of Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania, is known as University City. From the turn of the 20 ...

For the Rev. Nick Hood III, the recently unveiled Black Bottom mural at the Wayne State Medical School brings back a flood of memories. It's a tangible reminder of the historic neighborhood he called ...