If you’re Black, you’ve been told by someone in your family about some haint, a reappearing phantom or a folktale that left ...

As they always have, spirituals serve as inspirations, connectors and community builders — not just among African Americans but also between them and other Americans. The songs’ rhythms and ...

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

An African American woman's voice ... Most of the participants from these local communities would be able to list to you music in several genres that they liked not only to listen to but also ...

It’s still very much a factor in American life. It’s declining on the legal and the informal basis. And if you look at the barometers that really matter and African ... the list of the richest ...

Two well-known South African schools have been included in Carfax Education’s fifth annual edition of The Schools Index.

Dance can be a highly beneficial form of exercise for seniors with pre-existing health conditions. It offers a low-impact, ...

Democrats have also stepped up outreach to churchgoers Churches in African American communities have ... on political issues with a moral and spiritual lens. Similarly, conservative evangelical ...

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

The rousing overture has motifs taken from African American spirituals. The curtain rises on a set reminiscent of a room in an old church basement where many a choir rehearsal has taken place.