And they explain how the Negro spiritual went from being “slave music” to one of the most popular genres in America. Considered solely as cultural artifacts, the collection at Fisk—the ...

These songs were influenced by African and religious traditions and would later form the basis for what is known as “Negro Spirituals”. Col. Thomas W. Higginson of the 54th Massachusetts ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center is offering the world premiere of a new jazz oratorio "Rustin in Renaissance," a tribute to the Civil ...

Merely a stern concrete test of the underlying principles of the great republic is the Negro problem, and the spiritual striving of the freedmen's sons is the travail of souls whose burden is ...

OPINION: In a recently resurfaced sermon, the celebrated megachurch pastor used a popular white supremacist of the prosperity ...

The Fisk Jubilee Singers from Nashville, Tennessee, made devotees of "serious music" aware of Negro Spirituals after 1871, when they made performing tours in the North and in Europe. And in the ...

“What they did as a result of saving the university was share the beauty of the Negro spiritual worldwide,” said Marlette Buchanan, a former Jubilee singer who now performs professionally and ...

Today we are thrilled to bring you the premiere of the new remix EP by Massachusetts-based hardcore ska punk band PWRUP! The ...

Working across the world and in Southwest Louisiana are eight Kiwanis clubs, each with its own dynamic, meeting time and ...

New nonfiction picture book tells the little-known story of Florence Beatrice “Bea” Price, one of the greatest female black ...