The Grammy winner said she's eager to bring Baker's "fight, her love, her losses, her talent and her heroism to the big ...

In the summer of 1920, American music began changing in a way the world would soon feel, as Mamie Smith’s success shattered ...

Archibald J. Motley Jr., “Blues” 1929. Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 inches (Collection of Mara Motley, MD, and Valerie Gerrard Browne) (image courtesy the Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois) (© ...

There are gala themes, and then there are gala themes with main character energy. Texas Center for the Missing (TCM) leaned ...

We’re four years into the new ’20s, and the prototypal jazz-age aesthetic is finally making a comeback — reimagined, of course. Add to that the heavy-handed vamp noir lips featured at Valentino’s ...

STOCKBRIDGE — The Jazz Age, which took its name from a new type of music, is most associated with a new type of high-spirited, even hedonistic behavior: flappers dancing the Charleston, people in ...

With her cropped hair and shorter hemlines, Ms. Bow defined the original flapper: an independent woman who earned her own ...

In a city that changes faster than a Midtown rent hike, some New Yorkers are doing the unthinkable: hitting pause — on the present. From Jazz Age cocktail bars to punk-rock basements that still smell ...

During the Roaring '20s, F. Scott Fitzgerald said, the word "jazz" went from first meaning sex, to then dancing, and then music. You could get all three at New York madam Polly Adler's, where sex, ...

ESSENCE was on the scene on Governor's Island over the weekend, which was transformed into a world of flappers, foxtrotting, and old world opulence. Attendees went all out with their outfits, ...

The British musician “cannot wait to embody Josephine Baker, bringing her fight, her love, her losses, her talent and her ...