The Bessie Smith Cultural Center is a recipient of a ... as administered through the Tennessee State Museum. The grant award will be used for expansion and updates to the educational department ...

An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the dancer who was the subject of a tribute at the Bessie Awards. He was O’Shae Sibley, not O’Shea Sibley. When we learn of a mistake ...

plus birthday shoutouts to Empress of the Blues Bessie Smith, Haruna Fukazawa, Nancy Winston, Michele Brourman and Herbie Hancock, among others with a salute to some of this year's Bistro Award ...

Voices honoring female jazz and blues legends Billie Holiday, Phyllis Hyman, Nancy Wilson and Bessie Smith drifted through Aretha's Jazz Café, in Detroit's Music Hall Center for the Performing ...