Category

Music

• Bessie Smith

  American blues singer (1892–1937)

• Duke Ellington

  American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)

• Josephine Baker

  American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

• Paul Robeson

  American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)

• The Harlem Renaissance

  African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s

• Hip-Hop Culture and Movement

  rhythmic music accompanied by rhyming speech

• Apollo Theater

  theater and music venue in Harlem, New York City

• Fisk University

  historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee, US

• Motown Museum

  nickname given to Motown's first headquarters, located at 2648 West Grand Boulevard in Detroit, Michigan

• Stax Museum of American Soul Music

  soul music museum in Tennessee, United States