In "Summertime," DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince declared that "The Plateau is where everybody goes." For The Roots Picnic, ...

Erykah Badu has done it again. YEP, she’s the center of debate after sharing backstage footage from the 2026 Roots ...

Erykah Badu has officially been announced as a headlining performer at the Roots Picnic 2026 in Philadelphia, bringing one of R&B’s most influential voices to the festival’s main stage. The news was ...

Erykah Badu is a soulful visionary whose lyrics feel like ancestral whispers and affirmations all at once. She creates music that makes you feel seen, held, and spiritually aligned as a Black woman.

When Erykah Badu arrived with Baduizm in 1997, she shifted the direction of contemporary R&B. Alongside the late, great D’Angelo, who released Brown Sugar a year and a half earlier, the Dallas native ...

Erykah Badu returned to Chicago on December 3, 2025, and transformed the Chicago Theatre into a space guided by spirit, sound, and creativity. The venue was filled from the floor to the balcony, and ...

There is a question that hip-hop, for all its touted liberating qualities, has not yet answered. In fact, the question has been made thornier, more problematic. How does a grown woman, a black woman, ...

"You paid your money to do that? Thank you," Badu said Sergione Infuso/Corbis via Getty Erykah Badu called out a fan who was allegedly sitting with her arms crossed and glaring at her from the front ...

I’m sorry, Ms. Jackson, this song may not actually be about you! Erykah Badu isn’t so sure OutKast’s iconic 2000s hit song “Ms. Jackson” is about her mom. The 54-year-old neo soul artist revealed her ...

The singer and songwriter on her reign as one of music’s most idiosyncratic and spiritual figures and where her creative impulses are headed next. The singer and songwriter on her reign as one of ...

Susan Stamberg, 87, a “founding mother” of NPR who joined the network in its infancy and helped blaze a trail for women in journalism, becoming the first female anchor of a national nightly news ...

DALLAS — Fans of Dallas' own Queen of Neo Soul, Erykah Badu, will have to wait a bit longer for her first new album in 15 years. Badu announced on social media that her joint album with collaborator ...