"Before chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington's Greater U Street was known as Black

The African-American actors and actresses whose names have shone brightly on Broadway marquees earned their place in history not only through hard work, perseve

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An investigation into the ways in which race and ethnicity have shaped the American musical over the course of the twentieth century up through today

It is not hard to argue that every black performer in show business owes something to Bert Williams. Discovered in California in 1890 by a minstrel troupe manag