SPECIAL: Night Train marks the centennial birthday of April Featured Artist - tenor saxophonist and soul jazz pioneer Gene ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities says the project will "honor the statesmen, visionaries, and innovators who shaped ...

Those selected would receive up to $200,000 to create one of the 250 sculptures, which will be paid for in part with canceled ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is issuing a call for artists interested in creating statues for President Trump's National Garden of American Heroes. The federal agency says the ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) – This Easter Sunday, the front lawn of the Bessie Smith Cultural Center was filled with warmth, generosity, and hope as the Union Gospel Mission served its 11th Annual ...

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Taking place on May 3, registration is now open. On Saturday at 8 a.m., starting from the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, riders will wind their way through downtown city streets in the center of ...

Seagram in 1841 -- Writer Henry James in 1843 -- Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1894 File Photo by Gary Haynes/UPI -- Musician Bessie Smith in 1894 -- Actor Marian Jordan in 1898 Paul Reubens ...

"Everything goes into it now, I'm a bit of a musical nerd. Everything from Bessie Smith and old blues stuff right up to brand new artists today. "But I think that stuff that you love when you ...

Pearl Marie Cosgrove, 89 of Hagerstown MD passed away Wednesday April 16, 2025 at Suburban Hospital, Bethesda MD. Born on February 29, 1936 in Cearfoss MD, She was the daughter of the late Harry M.

Her parents loved music and played records on their Victrola all the time. At the age of 3, little Ernestine was singing along with Bessie Smith or whatever voice she heard coming from the record ...