Nina Mae McKinney has been described as Hollywood's first Black movie star, and yet her name is often missing from film histories and encyclopedias. In ...

Although she was arguably the most influential female blues and jazz singer of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as a major Black figure in 20th century theatre ...

In Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music , author Stephen Bourne celebrates the stage, screen, and radio career of this sophisticated African American ...