A pioneering trombonist, composer and bandleader, Willie Colón helped define the sound that emerged from New York’s Puerto ...

The music that the world now knows as salsa would probably not exist if not for the vision of Willie Colón. While Eddie Palmieri’s La Perfecta had been plying the two-trombone sound for years, Colón ...

Courtney Carson did not want to go to the Decatur church that November day in 1999 when the Rev. Jesse Jackson came to town for a rally. To do so, he remembered all these years later, was ...

For Black History Month, we revisit Charley Pride’s path from sharecroppers’ son and Negro Leagues player to country music ...