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

August 25, 2024 • The Rev. "Singing" Sammy Lewis was dubbed the Crown Prince of Gospel for recordings like "Jesus Paid It" for Vee-Jay Records.

Percy Sledge was an American R&B, soul, and gospel singer ... The legendary Black male solo singers of the 1970s left an indelible mark on music and culture that continues to resonate today.

Addressing the topic of white female singers who sound black requires sensitivity ... voices have often been compared to those of African-American artists. Known as “blue-eyed soul,” this ...

For centuries the world of classical music has been a somewhat one-sided story, with some brilliant music written by Black composers being wrongly ... Since then, his inventive and infectious jazz, ...

Bette Midler and Linda Ronstadt - a rare feat for a Black woman artist at the time. Houston launched her solo career in 1970, winning two Grammy Awards for her gospel music. Cissy Houston’s ...

FILE - American gospel singer and author Cissy Houston poses for ... and her daughter Whitney Houston appear at the "Keep A Child Alive Black Ball" in New York on Sept. 30, 2010.

Historically, Black Pentecostal-charismatic churches have not put an emphasis on political issues. That may be changing, a scholar of Black Christianity explains.

Rev. Liz Walker, founder of the “Can We Talk?” community healing initiative, says artistic expression goes beyond spiritual ...

In Houston, one of the ways to catch up with what's coming out of the country is the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's Korean Film Nights series which begins Oct. 31 with the appropriately creepy "Exhuma ...

There, between the outdoor Garden Stage and the West End Stage, an accidental multi-sensory, multicultural mash-up greeted and massaged my ears, to the concurrent tunes of Native American Julia ...

American gospel singer and author Cissy Houston poses for ... her daughter Whitney Houston appear at the “Keep A Child Alive Black Ball” in New York on Sept. 30, 2010.