On the evening of Feb. 4, 1932, an eager crowd gathered at the Hoyt Sherman Place auditorium for a recital of spirituals by a man whose bass-baritone voice was already […] ...

With his acclaimed interpretations of Delta Blues standards, he was a fixture on the Greenwich Village music scene for ...

Philadelphia's revised $2.8 billion school modernization plan faces community pushback as it proposes closing several schools ...

An Arts Council of Princeton event on March 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. celebrates the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood through new and reissued books, and an op ...

Live Nation and KOOL 108 present the legendary Trans-Siberian Orchestra, coming to Target Center on December 28 for two epic shows. The show will feature Minnesota native singer and song write Nate ...

January 23rd was the 50th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death. As historian Gerald Horne noted in his 2016 biography of Robeson, Time magazine declared him “probably the most famous living negro” in ...

Morgan Neville is an Oscar winning documentary-maker who’s given us amazing films on the lives of Mr. Rogers, Steve Martin, Keith Richards, Muddy Waters and many more. He was in Chicago on Wednesday ...

Ricky Cornish is an on-air correspondent for equalpride, where he's breaking down the latest in pop culture for Out Magazine, Pride.com, Plus Magazine, The Advocate, and Out Traveler. Based in Las ...

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Start your day with the Philly news you need and the stories you want all in one easy-to-read newsletter Welcome to Monday, Philly. If the weekend’s warmer temps had you craving summer, just pretend ...

In 2022, the governor of Pennsylvania stood on a stage at Paul Robeson High in West Philadelphia and hailed the small school as “a model for what can happen in Pennsylvania." But four years later, the ...

“Where have you been?” shouts Jessie Buckley. Laughing, arms thrown wide for a hug, she strides across the lobby of a North Hollywood theater to embrace a young woman staffing tonight’s event. We’re ...