By COLLEEN BARRY AP Fashion WriterMILAN (AP) — Michelle Francine Ngonmo, a Cameroonian-Italian, has dedicated her career to promoting Africans and people of color in Italian fashion. She founded the Afrofashion Association a decade ago to address the lack of representation. Ngonmo produces runway shows, mentors talent, and launched the Black Carpet Awards. The association has worked with 3,000 people of color, with 92 in creative jobs. Despite initial momentum […]

By GLENN GAMBOA AP Business WriterCivil rights photographer and artist Gordon Parks' legacy continues to expand today, even as the 20th anniversary of his death arrives on March 7. However, the Gordon Parks Foundation, which celebrates the same milestone this year, is finding it harder to fund its work inspired by the director of "The Learning Tree" and "Shaft."Though Gordon Parks Foundation Executive Director Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr., told The […]

By MARIA SHERMAN AP Music WriterNEW YORK (AP) — Sunday's Grammys mark a return to normalcy after the 2025 show was altered to focus on Los Angeles-area wildfire relief efforts."I think we will see some history-making moments," Recording Academy CEO and President Harvey Mason jr. told The Associated Press. "With artists being nominated in categories they haven't been previously nominated in, and a new crop of talent coming through the […]

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated PressDETROIT (AP) — "I was strung out on Bach, and Beethoven was my thing. I dug jazz, I dug rock, anything with a swing" — or so goes Funkadelic's 1978 groove "Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll!)."Now Parliament-Funkadelic is going orchestral.The Detroit Opera will showcase some of funk maestro George Clinton 's and P-Funk's greatest hits this weekend, performed by violins, cellos, horns and other instruments […]

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film WriterPARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The last Sundance Film Festival in Utah is drawing to a close this weekend.The Park City gathering was a wistful farewell to the place Robert Redford's brainchild has called home for over 40 years and launched so many careers. Although the festival isn't ending — it will start anew in Boulder, Colorado, in 2027 — it did have many, from […]