LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - A week after her death, Tina Turner is burning up the charts once again. Billboard reports that eight of the top ten selling songs on the R&B digital sales chart are Tina Turner ...

Cars packed the bright green manicured lawn outside the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center. Inside, guests bumped elbows at more than 10 tables set up in the main hall of the historic building.

The Rev. Bettie Kennedy remembers the dance steps -- the "Swing Out" and the "Slow Drag." Their memories date back to the heyday of the East Texas Cotton Club in Lufkin, when many of the greatest ...

Keeping the history of Black neighborhoods alive in Gainesville and Alachua County will be done through the telling of stories about normal everyday residents who made up the fabric of those ...

We want to acknowledge a couple of factual mistakes in the Cotton Club interstitial which last aired on July 19, 2010. First, the Cotton Club did not launch Ella Fitzgerald’s career. At the age of 15, ...

Sarah McKnight’s legacy will always have roots intertwined with the Gainesville community. As an African American woman whose impact as a musician, businesswoman and prominent nightclub owner was ...

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Residents went back in time through music at a party that played different genres throughout the night. The Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center hosted its "Boogie Woogie Rock n Roll" Dance Party on ...

HOUSTON – This year marks 50 years of the World’s Championship BBQ contest at NRG Park. Last year more than two hundred thousand attendees showed up to eat, drink and dance the night away. It’s a ...

Actor Maurice Hines, a tap dancer and choreographer who showcased his skills alongside his late younger brother Gregory in “The Cotton Club,” died Friday. He was 80. The Tony Award nominee died of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Albina Cotton Club, once the heartbeat of Portland’s Black music scene, is one of the featured locations in a new documentary centered on the Albina community. The Albina Music ...