In 2025, the Black community across entertainment, sports, politics, and culture mourned the loss of influential figures whose work shaped generations. From soul legends like Sam Moore, Gwen McCrae, ...

FILE: Bob Dylan performs at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco, 1979.

The air traffic controller asked the pilot to repeat the message, but no answer ever came. A seismograph at a nearby military ...

Rosemary Westwood from member station WWNO asked a few of New Orlean's favorite musicians about the songs they like to listen to around Christmas.

Includes Pulp, Suede, Robert Plant, Bon Iver, Big Thief, Wednesday, Geese, Little Simz, Paul Weller and more… but where did ...

Think about the music pumping through your headphones right now. Where did it actually come from? Every beat, every guitar ...

From Sly Stone of the Family Stone to Ozzy Osbourne, we remember some of the musicians lost in 2025. A Martínez is one of the hosts of Morning Edition and Up First. He came to NPR in 2021 and is based ...

Public broadcasting is your friend. And local stations such as PBS SoCal (a union of KOCE and KCET) and LAUSD's KLCS, KCRW, ...

Richard Smallwood, the eight-time Grammy-nominated, classically trained gospel composer and recording artist whose work reshaped contemporary gospel music, died Dec. 30 at age 77 from complications of ...

Eight-time Grammy-nominated gospel singer Richard Smallwood has died at 77. His representative announced that Smallwood ...

He sold millions of albums with the Richard Smallwood Singers, and his songs, many influenced by classical music, were ...