This special concert is part of the Old School Gospel Series which brings together the best in traditional gospel music. Get ready to be inspired and uplifted by the soul-stirring harmonies and ...

Powerful worship songs set you in the mood for prayers and some are entertaining and shouldn't miss in your playlist. Here ...

Over time, these sacred music performances became a significant part of Black culture in a genre known as gospel. After the ... Armstrong fought school segregation in the 1950s and was among ...

Walter Strickland's sweeping narrative of African American Christianity portrays a big God who is strong to deliver.

We came from the school of wanting ... the 1,000-year-old music of the West African griots (or oral historians) with the field hollers of Black American slaves and the gospel, blues, jazz, rock ...

The two then traveled across the street to the historic home of the legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, who was one of Chatham's first Black ... Burton's old grammar school, Dixon Elementary ...

In 1950, it was one of the first songs recorded by 19-year-old Cooke ... hand-picked a group of black men to join her for “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” (the gospel classic featured in the ...

Quick: What image comes to mind when you hear the word ragtime? Probably straw hats, lemonade and your kid trying to play “The Entertainer” on the piano. But in the 1890s and 1900s, the sound ...

But in a career that stretched across three-quarters of a century, what may have been more important about this giant of American music ... Gifted and Black” and the live gospel album ...

Although he was mainly raised in Virginia, Shaboozey spent two years at a boarding school in Nigeria ... Much of Shaboozey's music is inspired by his love for old Western films, per NBC.

Short lines, or no lines, greeted Election Day voters at many North Carolina polling places Tuesday morning, apparently due ...

Unfortunately, not all sentiments expressed in songs deserve to live forever. Systemic racism has been known to work itself ...