WPI professor Lucy Caplan explores how Black artists helped transform opera in new book "Dreaming in Ensemble." ...

Presentation of Spingarn medal to Marian Anderson by Mrs .Roosevelt, 30th Annual Conference, 1939. Courtesy: Library of Congress Anderson was born in 1897 in South Philadelphia. Hard-working and ...

Arturo Toscanini said that Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) had a voice that came along "once in a hundred years." When one of Anderson's teachers first heard her sing, the ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra is welcoming Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress and singer Kristin Chenoweth to the stage in ...

When Anderson was banned from signing at Washington's Constitution Hall in 1939 due to the color of her skin, it led to her performing an outdoor concert that became a defining moment in the civil ...

When we think about labor, it often brings to mind the hardworking individuals we might meet every day and their variety of manual tasks. This week’s Black History Month (BHM) thematic topic focuses ...

The Marian Anderson Studio is a practice space that Marian Anderson's husband, Orpheus King Fisher, built for her, and it is the place that she would practice her art when she was living in Danbury.