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Terry Hall, the frontman of the Specials, the British ska band that blended pub-fight energy with socially conscious lyrics that explored the political and racial tensions of Britain in the late 1970s...

Ms. Ruiz-Picasso, who was christened María de la Concepción, was born on Sept. 5, 1935, in Paris. She was named after Picasso’s sister, who had died in childhood, a loss that haunted...

On a rainy night in the South Korean city of Busan, a young woman leaves her infant son outside a church, near — but not inside — the “baby box” that is...

The two met at a party at the Bridgehampton home of the Iranian painter Manoucher Yektai in August 1970. “I was sort of transfixed,” Ms. Kilgore recalled in an interview with Mr....

“Eighty-Sixed,” by David B. FeinbergMost gay books that take place in New York in the 1980s are angry and filled with despair as AIDS ravages the community. David Feinberg’s “Eighty-Sixed” is unique...

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles jury on Friday found Daystar Peterson, the Canadian rapper better known as Tory Lanez, guilty of shooting a fellow artist, Megan Thee Stallion, in both of...

Thom Bell, the prolific producer, songwriter and arranger who, as an architect of the lush Philadelphia sound of the late 1960s and ’70s, was a driving force behind landmark R&B recordings by...

I began watching this show out of the crudest form of identitarian loyalty, because I harbor an unshakable sympathy for any youngish woman (even fictional; even if she wears bucket hats) whose...

Ms. Muana maintained a long and prolific career, releasing nearly two dozen albums and performing in Africa, Europe and the United States. The percolating grooves of her songs fused mutuashi rhythms with...

The day before Beaser went on leave, a group called Composers Collective began collecting signatures for an open letter calling for him to be placed on leave until the investigation was complete....