The 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian shared his experience working for the institution and the importance of preserving the ...

On Monday morning, I drove to Powder Springs, Georgia, a working-class suburb 20 miles northwest of Atlanta, to see former ...

“Sinnerman” was based on a traditional African-American spiritual ... Day” is a 1967 gospel arrangement of an 18th-century hymn, and it was another song to reach the mainstream charts.

Two churches, across the centuries. Generations after their birth in this nation first envisioned in Philadelphia, both ...

Sunday, Oct. 20, the Sir Christopher Wren Building’s chapel was transformed into a reverberating concert hall with distinctly traditional choral sound as the Christopher Wren Singers, the oldest a ...

A growing Christian nationalist movement sees a Trump win as a conduit to rule by religious hard-liners who reject the ...

“Please hear me now,” Jackson said deliberately at the end of a public “Your Vote Matters” service at Second Baptist, 757 E.

Jeremiah Wright, the African American minister from Chicago's Trinity Church, had denounced the United States with inflammatory language: "God damn America!" Wright's most famous parishioner was ...

Unique in appearance and structure, Black people's hair is especially fragile and prone to injury and damage. More than half of African American women will cite thinning hair or hair loss as their top ...

In the first six months of the Kennedy Administration, some 50 black men (and women) were appointed to executive branch jobs.

Wednesday’s service, which also featured plenty of hymns, prayer ... the Urban Erie Community Development Corp., the African-American Concerned Clergy and the A. Phillip Randolph Institute ...

History intersected with history on Oct. 18, when the Fisk University Choir sang in Evanston at the invitation of Lula B.