Any cultural historian will tell you that blues, jazz, rock, R&B, Hip-Hop, zydeco, and country can all trace their roots back to Black innovators, making the history of popular music in America and Black music in America inextricably bound. This truth is at the heart...

Over the past several years, the ever-expansive singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon has explored questions of fellowship and activism with Lincoln Center programs that have united professional singers with audience members through shared performance, most notably in her innovative and participatory opera based on the work of...