When you have to live in solitary for a year, with next to no contact with the outside world, how do you pass the time? Well, music is probably going to play a big part. And indeed it does in Apple ...

Country star Zach Bryan's new song about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is sparking backlash across Nashville. Bryan previewed his new song, "Bad News," on Instagram this week, ...

The soul singer, songwriter and producer, who died on Tuesday at 51, released three studio albums of meticulously constructed, vocally ambitious, genre-crossing music. By Jon Pareles In his music, ...

Legendary R&B singler D'Angelo died Tuesday after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his family confirmed in a statement. He was 51 years old. Has a case for best song The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, ...

Our list of the 10 best songs by the neo-soul architect, from Brown Sugar to Black Messiah. When it comes to the past three decades of R&B, particularly the development of the neo-soul movement, ...

The Donald Trump administration is getting some much-needed Africa diplomatic staffing certainty following a period of upheaval at the State Department and the White House. Give yourself a headstart: ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The Trump administration is working to arrange private-sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled South American nation, part of a broader ...

Spain is kicking against the prevailing political mood among Western nations when it comes to migration and policies regarding the African continent. At a time when the US, the UK, France and Germany ...

If there’s one show in the modern era that has endured, it’s The Walking Dead. The series has had many seasons and multiple spinoffs over the years — and it appears writer and executive producer Scott ...

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