Comedian and actor Dave Chappelle will receive the President’s Award at the 56th NAACP Image Awards. It airs live from the ...

Terry Carter, the pioneering actor, documentarian, and broadcaster whose screen credits included the original Battlestar Galactica, McCloud, and Foxy Brown, died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He ...

Pianist Jason Moran and bassist Marcus Shelby promise they will go deep into the catalogue of the legendary Duke Ellington ...

(This is the first part of a three-part series. Read the second part.) Duke Ellington, whose contours have something of the swell and sweep of a large, erect bear and whose color is that of coffee ...

National Museum of African American History and Culture Letter to the Musicians' Protective Association from Duke Ellington National Museum of American History Bust of Duke Ellington National Museum ...

He was 95. Emmy-nominated director for "A Duke Named Ellington," a TV musical documentary, Born John Everett DeCoste in ...

When I reached Marcus Shelby on the phone at his home in San Francisco he was immersed in the music of Duke Ellington ... musical input for the singular actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith ...

Marcus Shelby will perform with Jason Moran in a series of SFJAZZ concerts celebrating Duke Ellington ... providing musical input for the singular actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith ...