ESSENCE Fest returns with Nina Compton, Master P, Dawn Richard , Freedia, a Katrina Spotlight premiere and more.

Fest returns to the New Orleans Jazz Museum, marking its 25th anniversary celebrating Louis Armstrong's birthday.

Executive producer and narrator Jessica Biel tackles a French Quarter murder in an episode of her new docuseries for ID.

The Roots of Music has reached a major milestone with the purchase of a permanent campus in the former site of St. Gabriel ...

Poet Chuck Perkins, who owns Café Istanbul, depicts the beauty and pain of living in New Orleans in a new poetry book.

New Orleans-based EDT Dance Team will appear on an episode of NBC's hit show 'America's Got Talent' next week.

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