Beyoncé’s eighth album Cowboy Carter ambitiously celebrates country music while challenging the industry’s gatekeepers. Though white artists have dominated country music, the genre has a long history ...

NPR's Daniel Estrin talks to Emily Sieu Liebowitz and Laura Flam, the authors of But Will You Love Me Tomorrow. It's a collection of interviews of more than 100 members of girl groups in the 1960s.

Black women have long shaped the sound and soul of R&B music. Their voices—raw, emotional and unmatched—have given us timeless love songs that echo through generations. Whether they’re singing about ...

Affectionately known as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913. She will forever exemplify civil disobedience and defiance—especially to Black ...

Do those lyrics ring a bell? “I AM WOMAN” has been used in hundreds of thousands of videos, even before its official release on November 18, 2021. The lyrics are endlessly inspiring, building the ...

On Friday, Aug. 5, the singer released a remix of “Break My Soul,” the lead single off her seventh studio album “Renaissance.” The new version — titled “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)” — is a ...

Ladies, are you still running your man’s bathwater, untying his shoestrings and brushing his hair when he comes from work? Asking for a friend—well, three friends actually. You see, today marks 17 ...

Nigerian singer, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has made history as the first female African artiste to have a ...

Pop and R&B/hip-hop superstar Beyoncé makes her debut on Billboard’s streaming-, airplay- and sales-based Hot Country Songs chart (dated Feb. 24) with her first two entries on the survey: “Texas Hold ...

Thirty-five years ago, Tracy Chapman released her self-titled debut album. The album went on to win six Grammy nominations. The Cleveland native walked away with three Grammys that night in 1989, ...