Area students in grades 4 through 12 will soon experience an interactive history lesson on Dayton’s place in popular culture with the Funk Box Experience. The state-of-the-art educational tool, ...

Whatever Edward “Ed Word” Galan and Aaron “A.a.Ron” Myers put their minds to, they try to keep it funky. The two friends share a love of music, dance and activism, and have embarked on a creative ...

“We Want The Funk!,” a journey through the history of funk music, premieres at 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 on ThinkTV/PBS. Directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London, the film chronicles funk music from ...

With President Donald Trump waging war on the arts, via his control of the Kennedy Center and his ongoing attacks on museums nationwide, the power of artistic resistance has been on my mind. And a new ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

Betty Davis, the funk pioneer who was briefly married to jazz legend Miles Davis, died Wednesday at the age of 77 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Born Betty Mabry, the former model began her music career ...

The evolution and influence of funk music and Michigan Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd. “American Black Journal” host Stephen Henderson talks with Satori Shakoor, who was a member of the Brides of ...

‘Woman ahead of her time' Light in the Attic Records, which has reissued the Betty Davis catalog, says there was no one like her when she burst on the scene: "One can hardly imagine the genre-busting, ...

Calvin Simon, a founding member of the pioneering funk music group Parliament-Funkadelic, died Thursday at age 79. A cause of death was not immediately available. The news was confirmed Saturday by a ...

Universal Music joined the orchestra of music stocks in September, SiriusXM is roughly unchanged, and Spotify overcame a funk with its third-quarter results, but will end 2021 lower. By Georg Szalai ...