Derogatory depictions of African-Americans have always fascinated Oran. They are overlooked pieces of black history, he says, not often presented in museums.

The first-of-its-kind festival aims to promote black influences on country, folk and Americana music. "The banjo is an African instrument in its origin," said Dusky Waters, the festival's co-founder.

“You can’t become what you can’t see,” said singer Dusky Waters, from the grand stage of New Orleans’ inaugural Black Americana Festival.. Held at The Broadside, the Black Americana Festival (BAF) was ...

In an effort to highlight these emerging artists, country music fan Holly G founded blackopry.com two years ago. The site initially started as a simple directory of Black country and Americana ...

Donation of African Americana to UCSD opens window on Black life here in the Old West The Triton alum has ‘always been interested in stories less told’ ...

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The major collection amassed by the late Mayme Clayton will go from a backyard structure to a cultural center.

1. Black History Month is February because: a) Southern congressmen insisted it be placed in the shortest month of the federal calendar. b) Supporters of Malcolm X started the event as a mournful ...

He called it the Black Americana Museum. "I started collecting anything and everything for blacks, against blacks, about blacks, by blacks," he says. "If an African-American was represented, or if ...

For decades, Oran Z collected everything he could about black America, from racist tchotchkes to wax figures of Malcolm X, displaying them in his own museum. Now, his life's work is in jeopardy.