Music

Isaiah Rashad wants you to know it gets better

The Chattanooga MC sits down with Andscape during rehearsals for his Lil Sunny’s Awful Road Trip tour to discuss sobriety, growth and finding joy in a new chapter of life

Singer Joyce Wrice is not heartbroken. Now what?

Five years after Overgrown, Joyce Wrice returns with Machiko, an album that finds her looking inward, embracing womanhood and exploring life beyond heartbreak.

Macklemore, Chris Brown and Kanye West: Three tours in one America

What three major concert tours reveal about protest, punishment and celebrity power

‘The American Carnival’: Halftime power rankings Part 3

With football here, who the next halftime performer could be is still anyone’s guess

Cassandra Wilson, the 2-time Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, dies at 70

Jury convicts Duane “Keffe D” Davis of first-degree murder for the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur

The Dolly Parton Black America embraced

From Whitney Houston and Charley Pride to Queen Latifah and Beyoncé, the country music legend built bridges across genres, generations and communities

30 years later, ‘ATLiens’ remains OutKast’s defining statement

On their second genre-flipping album, Big Boi and Andre took on the hip-hop establishment, defiantly announcing to the world that ‘the South got something to say’

How long will they mourn Tupac?

For the world, Tupac Shakur became a legend. For his surviving siblings, he remained their brother