He played the trumpet with Lionel Hampton, produced albums ('Thriller'), songs ("We Are the World," "It's My Party"), films ('The Color Purple') and TV shows ('Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'), scored movies ...

Dickerson is chief executive officer of the African American Mayors Association ... She conducted groundbreaking research and work in child psychology and the consciousness of self in Black ...

The Oscar winner has made it his mission to bring the works of August Wilson, the great American playwright whose work elevated the everyday lives of Black folks, to the big screen. But the team ...

On the stage was a piano ... child star to the “King of Pop.” On such classic tracks as “Billie Jean” and “Don’t Stop ‘Til ...

In the 1950s, Jones worked as an arranger for stars like Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles before joining Mercury Records as its first African American ... the chance to play piano since his next ...

“This is where African Americans first could gather and have ... Pastor Bennet said that Minister Taylor is a child of the ...

I was one of the lucky ones to witness the original Broadway production of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, which was a pure ...

Jones died Sunday night at his home in Bel Air, California, surrounded by his children, siblings and ... making him the first African-American man to hold such a position within a white owned ...

Jones saw a superstar quality in Jackson and became his producer and mentor, first on 1979's Off the Wall, which was a major ...

Probably straw hats, lemonade and your kid trying to play “The Entertainer” on the piano ... the Euro-American march below with a catch-me-if-you-can line on top that channeled African ...

Student and child tickets must be ordered by phone ... Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors.” The Huston-Brumbaugh Nature Center, 16146 Daniel St. NE ...

Jones was born in Chicago in 1933, first learning to play piano at age seven ... Mercury records - he would later become its first African American vice-president - and slowly repaid the debt ...