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Remembering Pharoah Sanders, Who Sought Divinity on Earth

The legendary saxophonist, who died at 81 this week, saw music as a route toward holiness. To hear Pharoah Sanders tell it, he spent his six-decade career reaching for something that was always just beyond him. From the ecstatic flights of his playing, and the sometimes explicitly religious iconography he employed to… Read more »

Broadway honors James Earl Jones with Cort Theatre renaming

  Cort Theatre on Broadway has been renamed after James Earl Jones, the second theater on the Great White Way named after a Black artist. The honor adds to the many that the iconic actor Jones has amassed, including two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the… Read more »