WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with some of the organizers of the Newark stop of the State of the People Power Tour on May 13 ...

As the Trump administration moves to quickly expand immigration detention space, a series of standoffs have emerged between ...

The following report comes from the Associated Press via WHYY. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested Friday at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week.

WBGO's President and CEO Steven A. Williams responds to President Trump issuing an executive order seeking cessation of ...

Beloved singer and Newark native Andrew W. “Andy” Bey, who illuminated the jazz scene for five decades with his four-octave, ...

WBGO is proud to present host Paul Cavalonte and New Standards, bringing you a century of great songs and then some! Paul guides you through the great age of the mid-century American Songbook, its ...

WBGO is operated as a non-profit, 501(C)3 organization in the public trust. As such it has a Board of Trustees, a mission, and is funded, in the main, by listener donations or memberships, as well as ...

Arturo O’Farrill was, by his own admission, a “long-haired, stoned-out freaky kid” of 19, playing piano in a small bar in upstate New York when he caught the ear of pianist and composer Carla Bley.

SWEIDA, Syria — Nawaf Nasr, 78, holds a creased black-and-white photo showing what he believes is himself in a previous life. The image, from the 1940s, shows a serious-looking young man wearing an ...

President Trump says he is ordering federal agencies to rebuild and reopen Alcatraz — the notorious maximum security prison that closed more than 60 years ago. "I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, ...

Lezlie Harrison is her own personal renaissance. Her constant state of evolution and growth brings with it, gifts for those those paying attention. As a vocalist both bold and subtle, her ...