Celebrate Black Music Month this June!

Photo by Aaron Jay Young

June is Black Music Month! During this month, we celebrate the enduring impact and legacy of Black musicians and their creativity on American music, culture and history. From their heads, hearts, hands, and voices emerged distinctly American artforms, never before heard or felt.

Tracing the arc of the Black experience in America from slavery to segregation to civil rights and up to the present, Black music has always been an inseparable part of our American experience. From spirituals and gospel songs through the blues, jazz and . . .