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Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard returns to the Met with an opera based on the true story of boxer Emile Griffith, who rose from obscurity to become a world champion despite being a closeted bisexual.

Cinema Junkie chronicles a century of Black cinema, from silent films to superheroes and beyond.

In response to our callout, you shared (and crooned) bedtime musical selections that work magic. (Well, except for the mom who tried an Enya song and whose kid begged, "Stop singing!")

In Chita: A Memoir, Rivera recounts her career originating roles in major Broadway shows. Now 90, Rivera remembers West Side Story from the beginning: "I was there at the first flicker of the skirt!"

Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 and 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Join an all-star cast performing songs from the hit musicals “Dreamgirls,” “Ain't Misbehavin,” “The Color Purple,” “Porgy and Bess” and so many more to celebrate the rich history and evolution of Black roles and voices on Broadway. The cast is led by Stephanie Mills, Norm Lewis, Corbin Bleu, Niki Renee Daniels, Peppermint, Tiffany Mann and Sydney James Harcourt. Special appearances include Clayton Cornelius, James Monroe Iglehart, Brittany Johnson and many more.

Celebrating black culture, art & history.

Soprano Latonia Moore's journey to the world's greatest opera stages began singing gospel — in her grandfather's church — and jazz

An experimental COVID-19 medicine that has been shown to shorten the time people with severe illness have to stay in the hospital finally has a price tag that's lower than some analysts expected.

Nichols broke ground and paved the way for Black actors in Hollywood as Uhura. Her castmate George Takei wrote, "We lived long and prospered together."

Storch, the rubber-faced comic whose long career in theater, movies and television was capped by his "F Troop" role as zany Cpl. Agarn in the 1960s spoof of Western frontier TV shows, died Friday.