Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...
The Thankful Heritage Museum is a nonprofit that has traveled all over North Carolina for 31 years, sharing Black history and culture through its mobile museum displays. Right now, it has a unique ...
“The children of negro spirituals got to be the blues and then came jazz and R&B, and all of them used what was developed in the spiritual which was improvisation,” Jones said. The beats and melodies ...