A conversation with photographer Andrew Lichtenstein on his new book, This Short Life.

This is the story of a song, “Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down.” It was written by a 12-year-old boy on what was supposed to be his deathbed.

What would it sound like if one of the world’s greatest classical cellists, and the most legendary blues guitarist of all time…jammed together?

Black Swan Records was the first major Black-owned record label in the United States.

For over 30 years, commuters on NYC's subways and buses were greeted by posters of Miss Subways: beauty queens of one of the nation's first integrated beauty contests.