Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February ... "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the magnitude of her talent moved him to tears. Because she ...
She was the first African American to perform on the main stage at the Metropolitan Opera, the first African American artist to solo with the New York Philharmonic and for over 50 years, she called ...
Black History Month is here, along with a bevvy of events across Connecticut worth checking out. We have gone ahead and ...
One of the things you have probably heard us talk about on WUOL is the late discovery of many of Florence Price’s works. A ...
Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...
To celebrate Black History Month, the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District invites the community to a diverse lineup of ...
Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt ... in Stockholm and King Christian in Copenhagen. As a young black woman from South Philadelphia who could superbly deliver ...
When I was a kid, I remember learning about the same few Black Americans every Black History Month: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglas, Mary McLeod Bethune and Marian Anderson ...