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

United States Women's National Team star Midge Purce had an awkward interaction recently with fellow NWSL player Nikki ...

Music played a key role in African American religious life. Hymns and spirituals, many written by black composers, accompanied preaching in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and other ...

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

This American hymn, which tells of the faithfulness of ... The most well-known hymn version is this one, written in 1967 by the South African songwriter, Sebastian Temple. It has become an anthem ...

The importance of communal singing in American Protestantism ... the song was not included in African Methodist Episcopal ...

As the African Americans flocked to Bremerton during WWII ... to the Northwest the "Down Home Blues" and “Dr. Watts” hymns, ...

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

Before the service starts on Sunday morning at San Diego Reformed Church, the building fills with the sound of singing. Sean ...

Others, such as her apron, reveal her domestic life as a wife and mother, and her hymnal signals the devout religious beliefs that inspired her to “conduct” hundreds of African Americans to freedom ...

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