Jun 8, 2026 | Arts + Culture, HBCU, Higer Education
HBCU gospel choirs will receive a new national spotlight at the 41st Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards. The Stellar Awards have introduced HBCU Choir of the Year as a new category for 2026. The award will honor collegiate gospel choirs from Historically Black...
Jun 1, 2026 | Arts + Culture
When I was a child, we had only Black dolls in the house—a consideration that I am realizing was not universal. My mother was adamant about this decision, and she was also clear with us, as children, as to why. She based this part of her parenting on the famous “doll...
Jun 1, 2026 | Arts + Culture, Leadership
The Center for Black Excellence and Culture announced it received a two-year $247,000 grant from the New York-based Dana Foundation to launch a civic science research initiative. The grant will fund a dedicated Civic Science Fellow to lead a...
May 18, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Arts + Culture, Books
When Chris Williams, 26, and Miles Hubbard, 24, walked the stage as part of the last graduating class of the University of the Arts, their future felt uncertain. Between dealing with the school’s closure and finding work as illustrators in the age of artificial...
May 11, 2026 | Arts + Culture
Karen Warrington used to be a lead dancer and choreographer with the Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble, right from the company’s founding in 1967. The North Philly native grew up in the 1950s idolizing ballet dancers like Essie Marie Dorsey, Sydney King, Marion...
May 11, 2026 | Arts + Culture, Photography
Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA/the Museum) will present Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985, a landmark exhibition exploring the work of American and Afro-Atlantic diaspora photographers and artists working with photography in developing and fostering a...
