As Tharpe rose higher in status during the 1940s, she was still subject to Jim Crow Laws requiring racial segregation in many public places. Tharpe could perform alongside white artists, but she could ...

Mariah Carey, Phil Collins, Lauryn Hill, Pink, Shakira, INXS, Luther Vandross, Billy Idol, and Iron Maiden are among the 17 ...

Rock-n-roll really has been around for 70 years. That’s give or take, of course, depending on the definition you use, as not all music scholars agree its birth was in the mid-1950s. But earlier or ...

Distinction: First all-female group to be inducted. The Hall inducted founding members Florence Ballard, Diana Ross and Mary Wilson. Ballard, who died in 1976, holds a sad additional distinction as ...

Forty years ago, Elvis Presley made history as one of the inaugural inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The year was 1986, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was a brand-new establishment ...