Soon after she eased on the Powell Hall stage signifying the posh elegance often associated with a night at the Symphony, Grammy-nominated soul singer Ledisi thanked the audience for being their “whole, true self” to Powell Hall.

Chris Brown will be hitting the road for his INDIGOAT Tour with some of the hottest names in hip-hop including Tory Lanez, Ty Dolla $ign, Joyner Lucas and Yella Beezy. The tour is a follow-up to last year’s highly successful Heartbreak on a Full Moon Tour. The show kicks off in Portland and …

Richard Stephen Shaw, known professionally as rapper Bushwick Bill from the rap trio Geto Boys, died Sunday night of pancreatic cancer. He was 52.

Fox Concerts will present Diana Ross and her Music Book Tour on Thursday, July 25 at 8 p.m. at the Fabulous Fox Theatre. Diana Ross is considered one of the most successful recording artists and entertainers of all time. 2019 will be remembered as a milestone in history with a year-long Diam…

“‘The V’ is a love letter to my city,” said filmmaker and actor Damien D. Smith. “When I was writing this, I wanted to highlight and accent St. Louis the best way I can.”

R&B veterans Keith Sweat and Johnny Gill will be among the featured performers taking the stage for Fair St. Louis 2019.

Erin Moore’s road for a career that has spanned film, television and stage began at the Muny. She was in the inaugural group of Muny Kids before graduating to Muny Teens and earning her Actor’s Equity Association card as a 17-year-old performer in the “King and I” and “Anything Goes.”

A majority of the buzz surrounding Friday night’s Spring Music Festival was the ongoing debate as to whether R&B singer Jaheim would actually show up. Yes, he was reportedly booked. Yes, he was on promotional material. But neither have stopped him from being absent before. They would hav…

Guests who attended the Spring Music Festival Friday night were thrilled to learn by way of the big screens promoting upcoming shows that soul goddess Erykah Badu and her fellow Dungeon Family cohorts Goodie Mob – including original member Cee Lo Green – will be headed to Chaifetz Arena this fall.

Even with 12 Grammy nominations under her belt, soul music vocal powerhouse Ledisi considers the opportunity to sing with a full orchestra a “graduation” of sorts.

When the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis production of “Love’s Labor Lost” opens this weekend at Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park, it will be the first professional Shakespeare production for Naima Randolph and Kiah McKirnan.

Even though it’s one of the most anticipated horror films of 2019, seeing Tate Taylor’s name as writer/director brings the expectation of unrealized potential.

Grammy Award winning rapper and St. Louis native Nelly will take the stage at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. doors) at the Liberty Bank Alton Amphitheater Friday, Sept. 6.

“I’ve been coming to the May Day Parade since I was 8 years old,” radio personality BJ Holiday, known to listeners as “BJ The DJ,” was eager to share his personal parade history to parade co-host Gary Boyd when the Majic 103.7 car rode past the judges’ station at the 109th Annual Annie Malon…

Curators of contemporary art museums face a competing set of challenges, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis responds to them all with dazzling creativity in the set of shows that opened on Friday, May 17 and close August 18.

Nina Simone is widely known as the personification of the tortured genius. Her life was made even more complicated as one of the countless African Americans forced to endure generations of systematic barriers impeded on their life and experiences that stretched back to when black people were…

Melvin Edmonds, one of the founders of the R&B vocal group After 7, passed away on Saturday following a brief illness. He was 65. Edmonds was also the older brother of R&B heavy hitter Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. The Grammy Award nominated group also featured Edmonds younger brother …

Curators of contemporary art museums face a competing set of challenges, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis responds to them all with dazzling creativity in the set of shows that opened on Friday, May 17 and closes August 18.

Professional athlete-turned-filmmaker Matthew A. Cherry is in the heart-melting business with his book “Hair Love.” Based on an idea for a short film to promote positive African-American family images in animation, “Hair Love” uses seven-year-old Zuri’s fluffy tresses to display the bond bet…

(St. Louis Public Radio) – People living in the disparate municipalities of St. Louis often struggle to relate to each other. But members of a local dance troupe believe the first step toward having meaningful conversations can be taken without words.

Those who watch ‘black-ish’ and its spin-off ‘grown-ish’ already know that Yara Shahidi is breathtaking to see on television.

Tisha Campbell, an internationally recognized actress, singer, and producer, will give the keynote address to Harris-Stowe State University (HSSU) graduates at the spring commencement ceremony on May 18.

On Sunday, May 12, local jazz diva Denise Thimes will hold her 23rd Denise Thimes and Friends Mother’s Day Concert.

“My skin is brown. My manner is tough. I’ll kill the first [expletive] I see. My life has been rough,”a character later identified as Peaches sings in Nina Simone’s powerful musical narrative “Four Women.” “I’m awfully bitter these days, because my parents were slaves.”

“A memoir is horrible for families,” Charles M. Blow, author of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” told Kameel Stanley before a captive audience at Brick River Cider two weeks ago. “I would wager that the best memoirs you’ve ever read are written by people whose parents are dead or by people who ha…

The 17th Annual Mary Meachum Freedom Crossing Celebration will celebrate The 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans to the settlement that would become Virginia in 1619.

IN UNISON chorus members L.R. Bracy and Rochelle Calhoun endearingly refer to themselves as soprano sisters, though they look more like grandmother and granddaughter. That is part of the power of the 120-voice choir.

“If you ask Michael Ealy, who DeVon Franklin now agrees with, the morale of the story is to listen to your husband,” Meagan Good said during her visit to St. Louis to promote her upcoming film “The Intruder,” which hits theaters nationwide on Friday, May 3.

Pioneering Academy Award nominated director John Singleton passed away today after suffering a stroke nearly two weeks ago.

Regardless of whom you ask, two things for sure will be said about Cedric Cobb. The first is that his enthusiasm tank is always full. The second is he is always sharp, both in intellectual capacity and in impeccable appearance.

An ice cream break during a studio session changed the course of Kayla “KVtheWriter” Thompson’s latest artistic endeavor.

Wednesday morning’s icky weather couldn’t keep a sizable crowd from coming out to show love to music legends the Isley Brothers as the latest inductees of the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

Multi-platinum selling, Grammy and Golden Globe nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa announced his “The Decent Exposure Tour” during his set on stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival over weekend.

Based on a true story whose beginning, middle and end was covered by news outlets around the world, the film “Breakthrough” takes audiences on a passionate journey of heartbreak, self-discovery, faith, hope, love and a modern-day, within-this-decade miracle.

Even while on task with talking about the new and improved vision for the InPower Institute, Rebeccah Bennett manages to be a source of inspiration and encouragement.

Gerald Early is an acclaimed scholar, critic and essayist. He is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the African and African American Studies Department at Washington University, and among his many interests is the wide world of sports – especially baseball.

Mary J. Blige and Nas will be hitting the road together for the first time ever across North America this summer. Produced by Live Nation, the 22-city outing will kick off July 11th in West Palm Beach, FL at the Coral Sky Amphitheatre and make stops in Atlanta, Houston, Las Vegas and more.

The Sheldon has announced its 2019-2020 concert season, to take place in the intimate and acoustically perfect Sheldon Concert Hall. The season includes five signature series – the Sheldon Rhythm & Jazz series, Sheldon Folk, Sheldon Classics, Saturday Matinees and Coffee Concerts, which …

“Nipsey was to the hip-hop community what Bob Marley was to the reggae community,” Minister Louis Farrakhan said as he paid tribute to Nipsey Hussle during the rapper’s homegoing celebration Thursday at Staples Center. “He was a prophetic voice.”

Oliver Lee Jackson describes his artmaking with the meticulous detail of a skilled engineer.

Because of the story behind the story, it will be impossible not to root for “Little” and give it the benefit of the doubt long after the grace period of buckling down and officially declaring the film a bust.

Imagine receiving a phone call that thrusts your heart from your chest into your throat. You sprint to your car and rush to the hospital, where you see your loved one laying in a bed – cold, without a pulse and no sign of life. What will you do next?

A new four-hour documentary, produced and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., explores the U.S.’s emergence from the civil war and slavery, and the era’s thwarted vision for an interracial democracy that haunts the country more than 150 years later.

On March 20, Hollywood brought its magic to St. Louis for the premiere of 20th Century Fox’s new film, “Breakthrough,” which is based on real-life events that happened in St. Charles County.

(St. Louis Public Radio) – For two decades, Lois Conley, founder of St. Louis’ Griot Museum of Black History, has struggled just to pay the bills, hoping the roof, heating and air conditioning will last another season.

“I knew we were going to win the Oscar – I really did,” said St. Louis native Kevin Mayes. As her head tailor, the fashion designer helped Ruth Carter make history as the first African American woman to earn a costume design Academy Award for “Black Panther.”

Multi-platinum/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The O’Jays and Stephanie Mills will play the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Saturday, June 15 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 5 at 10:00 a.m.

Rapper Nipsey Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, was fatally shot outside his clothing store in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday. He was 33.

Pop star Justin Timberlake lived up to every bit of his reputation as the personification of fun when his Man of the Woods Tour played before a sold out crowd at Enterprise Center Thursday. It had been more than five years since Timberlake visited the city. And because of vocal cord issues t…