ashawnta_jackson, Author at JSTOR Daily

What's the appeal of humor masquerading as seriousness? An entire movie genre stands ready to shed light on that question.

Beah Richards is best known as an actor, but in 1951 she wrote a sweeping poem that influenced the Civil Rights Movement.

The history of the guitar shows that musical instruments have been gendered—but just how changes over time.

The African American opera singer made history with a stirring concert at the Lincoln Memorial. But there was much more to Marian Anderson.

The pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton once told an ethnomusicologist that real jazz tunes needed "tinges of Spanish."

Songs weren't always labeled for explicit lyrics. The history of how it all came about includes some unlikely bedfellows.

Black women's experiences in the suffrage movement show that the Nineteenth Amendment marked one event in the fight for the vote, not an endpoint.

Toni Morrison was renowned for the musicality of her prose, so writing lyrics for classical music wasn't a huge stretch.

Underrepresented in the country's newsrooms, Black journalists found an outlet on public affairs shows like Black Journal.

Thinking quickly and reading the dance floor, an innovative DJ began playing the funkiest parts of every record.

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