The group, on the road celebrating its 50th anniversary, comes to SFJAZZ Center's Miner Auditorium this week for a four-day run. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.

Ella Jenkins, a singer-songwriter known as the “first lady of children’s music,” has died. She was 100.  According to NPR, ...

The movement started in Greensboro, North Carolina, and spread through the South in the early 1960s. Several Southern ... just days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law.

Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got ...

The movement started in Greensboro, North Carolina, and spread through the South in the early 1960s. Several Southern cities have held similar expungement ceremonies in recent years as the young ...

The movement started ... are vindicated. In 1960 they were prosecuted. Today they are praised. In 1960 they were convicted. Today they are exonerated," Donaldson said. The arrests and convictions of ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Charles Barr, left, and Simon Bouie, right, wait for a hearing to start where their records were cleared ...