Van Dyke is best-known as the star of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the 1961-66 sitcom that forever raised the bar for situation comedy, proving that a sitcom could be smart, sophisticated and sexy. But Van ...

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrated its Opening Night Gala on Dec. 3. Artistic Director Alicia Graf Mack tells ...

“If I had my way, I would hang all Jews in the country,” roared Ralph Ninfo in a 1938 as pro-Mussolini Italian American fascists and pro-Hitler German American Bund members met at a Bund rally in New ...

From 2015 through 2020, a personal research project included my reading dozens of jazz books and related media. They included mainstays such as the massive reference The Penguin Guide to Jazz ...

The Big Apple” refers to New York City, but the nickname stems from a popular 1930’s jazz dance, born at the “Big Apple” club ...

Crash, The Artist, and Green Book won the Academy Award for Best Picture, but you'd be hard-pressed to find people who even ...

When theater and movie producers in the1920s and early 1930s needed actors and actresses to learn modern dance, they often ...

Twyla Tharp led the way with her distinct brand of American classicism, along with other artists who stepped it up.

Dancers like Jennifer Jones and Danielle Jolie Dale-Hancock helped usher in diversity to the Rockettes dance troupe in the ...

In these pages, we witness a year of Black artistry that moved hearts, shook stages and reshaped the contours of possibility.

Currier & Ives,, “Friendship, Love and Truth” (1874, New York), hand-colored lithograph (courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, all images via University of Texas Press) Almost ...

Ruth E. Carter, Oscar-winning costume designer, and Michele Y. Smith, CEO of the Museum of Pop Culture, on the impact of Ryan Coogler’s film has had on popular culture.