As the 100th anniversary of Black History Month kicks off this month, an annual celebration of jazz and blues is back to ...
There now is a fort at Fort Mose Historic State Park in St. Augustine.In comparison to Castillo de San Marcos, the massive fort a few miles to the south, it’s a small structure. And it isn’t the ...
In 1995, Scott Simon interviewed artists associated with the "Outsider" school -- including Mose Tolliver and his daughter, Annie -- for Weekend Edition Saturday. The following is a partial transcript ...
Experiencing a performance by veteran blues-jazz artist Mose Allison can be for some of us like finding a long-lost valuable. For younger listeners, discovering his music can be a cultural awakening.
Nestled on 40 acres between a quiet St. Augustine neighborhood and the Tolomato River sits a historical site that, while not as formidable or well known as the fortress to the south ― the Castillo de ...
MONTGOMERY, ALA. — Mose Tolliver, a folk artist whose self-portraits and vivid images of nature and the female form done in house paint on plywood made him a leader of the modern-day “outsider art” ...
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – Black culture stretches further back in St. Augustine history than many may know. The first free Africans in America lived in the area, and when Spain still ruled Florida, Fort ...
Fort Mose will launch a Black history trail to educate visitors about slaves' "flight to freedom" to St. Augustine centuries ago. The fort was the first legally sanctioned free Black settlement in ...