Often, people don’t realize this work was done by African Americans,” says a producer of the film. And that work includes some iconic campaigns.

In 1988, 19-year-old Jennifer Jones became the first black Rockette when she danced with the iconic group for the Super Bowl halftime show. “It was magic,” said Jones, of taking the field as Chubby ...

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.