The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter ...

Tazewell Thompson's "Jubilee," about Fisk University's Jubilee Singers, has its world premiere at Seattle Opera.

The Democratic Party has a “Black Elephant” problem they don’t want to talk about, African Americans to comprehend and voters to respond to on election day. That problem involves the growing ...

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 ...

The African Children’s Choir is celebrating its 40th anniversary with an American Tour that will make a stop in Zanesville.

“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.

Like a large family reunion, the anniversary celebration drew adults and children from across the region Oct. 13 to St.

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 ...

Singers from local choirs will sing hymns of praise and celebration. Preservation Society board member Maschell ... The Preservation Society invites you to visit, and looks forward to welcoming you to ...

The law, passed on Sept. 2, says that any person who can trace their ancestry back to a victim of the transatlantic slave trade, and who doesn’t hold an African nationality, “may acquire ...