Black blues singer Bessie Smith single-handedly scares off Ku Klux Klan members who are trying to disrupt her show one hot July night in Concord, North Carolina

David Crittendon's historic blues novella, THEN SEE IF I CARE: A Story About Bessie Smith, makes you feel her yearning down to your bones. This is no low-down,

From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women

The cultural and industrial reconstruction of the South, explored through a major figure in early black music

Two modern plays explore the spiritual and tragic aspects of the human struggle with death