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San Francisco native and renowned portrait photographer Michael Collopy will discuss his career photographing some of the world’s most influential leaders, including seven U.S. presidents, in a Rae Dorough Speaker

This volume explores concepts of freedom and bondage in the blues and argues that this genre of music explicitly calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular justice to come. Placing blues music within its historical context of the post-Reconstruction South, Jim Crow America, and the civil rights era, Julia Simon finds a deep symbolism in the lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal. The blues calls out and indicts the tangled web of deceit and entrapment constrain...

Downtown West Monroe hosts "Ouachita Live" monthly concerts on the last Friday of each month at 7 p.m. from March through October at Alley Park.

The Memphis Police Department is investigating an aggravated assault the took place near B.B. King Boulevard.

Orson Weems has always loved and appreciated music. From the time he was a young boy, he admired his dads impressive new stereo system with big speakers -- but then again, so did the rest of the neighborhood.

Orson Weems has always loved and appreciated music. From the time he was a young boy, he admired his dads impressive new stereo system with big speakers -- but then again, so did the rest of the neighborhood.

“I am going to challenge myself to read 10 words written by Black authors this month.”

The A.V. Club shines a light on the impressive young actors who'll be starring this year in blockbuster films and white-hot shows

The former Yardbirds guitarist helped shape the sound of modern rock

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Daniel de Visé traces B.B. King's journey from the "chitlin' circuit" to the White House, exploring the conflicts that the bluesman felt as he crossed over to a mainstream audience.