One year after The Minstrel Show, what’s next for the Hall of Justus? For our Oct. 5, 2005 issue, Grayson Currin joined Little Brother and their Hall of Justus entourage–L.E.G.A.C.Y., The Away Team, ...

Saturday March 15 the NC Symphony is working with Grammy winner Rhiannon Giddens in an interesting project. She will be singing traditional, classical/jazz selections. She will also present some of ...

It began with a late 18th century version of a social media blast — word of mouth and occasional shouts to passersby encouraging their attendance at a new show by fresh-faced performers moments after ...

If U Black Niggas Network, the satirical television station at the center of the 2005 Atlantic Records debut by Durham’s Little Brother, had been a real cable network, the tone of the broadcast would ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) – With their slouch hats, whiskers and time-worn instruments, members of the 2nd South Carolina String Band look and sound like a Civil War camp band. And while they play “Oh!

The New Christy Minstrels aren't exactly new. In fact, the group that helped spread folk music to the masses in the 1960s is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. Now eight members strong and ...

The Boston Minstrel Company is a vibrant group of one hundred volunteer singers and musicians who know that music heals, having visited homeless shelters, residential facilities and prisons weekly ...

Some people like to get in the holiday spirit by listening to Christmas music on the radio. Others bring bright holiday lights to places that are often dark and without much hope. Members of the ...

The new book “Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery to Hip-Hop,” by Yuval Taylor and Jake Austen, explores the history of minstrelsy, dissecting how it became the most popular form of ...