Elvis, who was strongly influenced by and nurtured on Black music, was a part of the revolution that stood up against Jim ...

Paralleling her real-life story with over two dozen songs in tow, Taylor’s hallelujah of a musical feels like a celebration, ...

Black Ensemble Theater founder Jackie Taylor gets personal about her own family in Elvis Presley Was a Black Man Named Joe.

The location for Taylor's Free to Be Village development will be situated on this site across the street from Black Ensemble ...

Next year will mark 50 years since the founding of Chicago’s Black Ensemble Theater. Many well-regarded theaters have come ...

The CEO of Black Ensemble Theater is disrupting her traditional formula with a new autobiographical musical — and planning an ...

Elvis jumpsuits are on display at Graceland for the first time in several years as part of the newly refreshed "Elvis: ...

When a kitschy bust of the King was swiped from the East Village restaurant where it had lived for thirty-seven years, the ...

Soon thereafter Memphis' WDIA became the first all-Black radio station in the nation. Preston Lauterbach's “Before Elvis — The African American Musicians Who Made the King,” stands as an ...

Some context first: Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in 1935, Elvis grew up in poverty in a predominantly black neighbourhood. From a young age, he was immersed in gospel, blues, and rhythm and blues ...