Pianist Steve Lee returned to Memphis from a career as a performing artist to share jazz with students. In the age of social distancing, he's had to take his own advice, and learn how to improvise.

We should be as bold and bullish about our contemporary black music as we are about all of our claims to fame, from FedEx and Holiday Inn to historic music attractions to dry rub ribs.

The songwriter and performer of early Stax hit "You Don't Miss Your Water" will receive $25,000 from the National Endowment of the Arts. He said the full amount will be used for projects involving young soul musicians.

The new gallery opens in a community rich with history and with plans for exhibits and programs.

A Tour of Possibilities is rolling once again, after being closed due to the pandemic. Now, the tour guide talks via Zoom to customers in their cars.

East High's collaboration with local artists showed the academic, social and emotional potential of an interactive online class.

As Juneteenth arrives, city prosecutor Errol Harmon traces his family’s history. His ancestors, formerly enslaved, founded Brown Missionary Baptist Church, one of the Memphis area’s largest and most prominent black churches.

Memphis in May has canceled the 2020 Beale Street Music Festival and World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest.

Harold Foxx was the first deaf comedian at the Laugh Factory and attended the comedy institution The Groundlings Theatre & School. In his shows, he says, “It’s a deaf man, calling it like it is.”

State and local film officials think NBC's experience with the Memphis-made television drama will reap future rewards.

Memphis International Airport and the UrbanArt Commission named winners Tuesday, June 16, in the competition for public art in the modernized B Concourse.

The show, which debuted in September 2019, had a 10-episode season.

Local country singer Lance McDaniel invited Bar-Kays lead vocalist Chris Johnson to sing with him on “Skin,” a timely ode addressing racial dysfunction in America.

Subtitled “A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure,” Holly Whitfield's book highlights close to 100 Memphis places from the oddball (“Sex Pistols Taco Bell”) to the sober (Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum).

For decades, listeners could tune in to hear Drake Hall on the radio. Then suddenly, for the first time in a long time, they couldn’t. 

Memphis was a way station for the Wolf on a journey from the Delta to Chicago, but he was in Memphis long enough to cut a two-sided single as monumental as anything created in one of America’s signature music cities. 

The museum will require staff and guests to wear masks, and will have cashless transaction points and sneeze guards.

"The Music Cities Guide to Recovery" is designed to help music cities use artists as a resource during public crises.

The book focuses on the family of Robert Church, who built a fortune operating brothels, then converted his wealth into building a black political dynasty in the Jim Crow-era South.

A local architecture firm recently “lost a window” but, as they say, took an opportunity – and it quickly went viral. 

On June 19, event planner Cynthia Daniels is hosting an online market for African American makers to sell their wares, crafts and services.

If the pandemic allows, the young artist and her family will fly to Washington, D.C., in September for a special reception and viewing of her painting on display in The Capitol.

Longtime entertainment booker and concert promoter Jim Green died Monday, June 1, after a heart attack. He was 50 years old.

Germantown is opening The Grove at GPAC outdoor entertainment venue, but for now COVID-19 requirements limit the experience to small groups at the new venue. 

Lori Spicer Robertson found a way to keep her family engaged in isolation. With her Joymaker conference, she hopes to help others share strategies for work-life balance during the pandemic.