CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Pilgrim Baptist Church choir sang "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" Thursday morning as they began a new chapter in turning their former church home into a gospel music museum. The ...

In a groundbreaking development for St. Louis’s cultural landscape, the historic Second Baptist Church is embarking on an ambitious journey to become the city’s first Gospel Music Hall of Fame (GMHOF) ...

Walk into the First Baptist Church of Bridgehampton as service begins, and the very first sound you’ll hear is music. “We welcome you,” the five women of the Joyful Praise choir sang on a recent rainy ...

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UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland (RNS) — Smallwood, an eight-time Grammy nominee, died on Dec. 30, at age 77 of complications from kidney failure.

Faith leaders, musicians, and dignitaries gathered in Prince George’s County to celebrate the life, ministry, and music of ...

More than 70 ministers, gospel singers, politicians and community members gathered in the backyard of the former Pilgrim Baptist Church on Thursday, outside the limestone walls of the historic ...

There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...

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The Harlem Easter Weekend Gospel Celebration will present a live gospel concert at Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem. The ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) —The interplay between song and sermon — and the importance of both in Black churches — is the focus of a new docuseries created by scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. “Gospel” premieres on ...