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Black Music Month originated in 1979. Jimmy Carter proclaimed the month of June as Black Music Month to celebrate the wonderful music, the  achievements, births, important timelines, events and to remember those we lost.

By Esih Efuru In the summer of 1981, my mom told me that I was headed to camp. I jumped for joy and ran to…

“Sparkle,” a feature film about a musical sister act that’s set in Detroit at the peak of the Motown era, has been approved for $3.1 million in Michigan film incentives. The movie is a remake of the 1976 movie starring Irene Cara, Lonette McKee and Philip Michael Thomas that is set in Harlem and said […]