The Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago was founded in 1983 and is the only organization of its kind. The CBMR documents and preserves information and materials related to the black music experience throughout the world. Through its Library and Archives, publications, conferences, performances, and other public programming, the CBMR promotes and advances scholarly knowledge and thought about black music and the black musical experience, and about their relationship to higher education and to society at-large.

New podcast episode, “Chicago Gospel: Innovators and Influence.”