Black Music Month originated in 1979. President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the month of June as Black Music Month to celebrate the wonderful music, the achievements, births, important timelines, events and to remember those we lost.
Herb Reed (pictured), the founding and very last surviving original member of the hottest pop vocal group of the 1950′s The Platters, died Sunday at age 83, after a period of declining health, reports the Boston Business Journal. Reed, who was a Kansas City, Missouri, native and born in to abject poverty, lost his parents when he […]