Did you know that the largest register of Black gospel music and preaching in the world is located outside Dallas-Fort Worth? Housed at Baylor University, the Black Gospel Archive is dedicated to ...

Oakland’s own Father of Gospel, Hawkins, still influences 21st century music with his Grammy-winning hit "Oh Happy Day," as ...

Songs of survival, defeat and hope swept through cotton fields in the antebellum south. Slaves used them to navigate a brutal ...

Over the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. The ...

These are just some of the Black gospel artists shaping the genre with powerful voices and unwavering faith, from legends to rising stars. For generations, gospel music has been a vital source of ...

For generations upon generations, Gospel music has been a cornerstone in the Black community. Getting us through slavery, segregation and the modern day trials and tribulations of being Black in ...

When Robert Darden was 6 years old, he discovered the music of Mahalia Jackson. He never forgot it. Decades later, he wrote a book about black gospel history. But while those he interviewed had many ...

The prism of Black beauty turned and turned, and my mental vision board of heaven’s angels filled up with Dottie Peoples in the spangled armor of God, Mahalia Jackson’s elegant countenance, the Pace ...