On July 21, 1966, the Ku Klux Klan held a rally in Overton Park. The chief speaker was Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who "told the crowd of about 400 Klansmen, supporters ...

Award-winning Broadway director and choreographer Jeffrey Page is taking his talents to Africa! Page has described the short film Blues People as a documentary showcasing Malian artists’ vibrant ...

When NHL coaches won’t confirm their starting goaltender for a regular-season game in November, it goes without saying that it’s a league of secrecy. The NHL Draft is even more top secret. Only ...

In the 1960s, the city of Memphis played host to the Memphis Country Blues Festival. It was a celebration of blues artists that many white organizers helped put together. That festival was captured on ...

Mention the name Louis Armstrong, and certain sounds and images of the 20th-century jazz genius flood in. Screaming trumpet high notes. That gravelly "Hello, Dolly!" croon. Bright eyes and a toothy ...

A central Iowa band and an Ames filmmaker are on a mission: They want to keep blues music alive. When the Buckmiller/Schwager Band, led by Tom Buckmiller and Brian Schwager, won the Iowa Blues ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. John Landecker is joined by John Anderson, ...

John Wilson has already defeated federal prosecutors in their case against the former Staples executive. Now the father to three children who were accepted into USC, Stanford and Harvard as members of ...

DULUTH — Thomas Foster, who in 1868 styled Duluth "the Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas," imagined that our city would become "the Chicago of Lake Superior." It's a goal Duluth arguably met, becoming ...

While the respective champions of New Orleans and the Mississippi Delta can (and will) continue to tussle over a claim to the “birthplace” of the blues, there’s only one Kind of Town that can lay a ...