When nine students and a music professor set off on a fundraising tour from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871, they had no idea what lay ahead. They just hoped their talents as singers and the ...

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. A choir in Michigan's been keeping the ...

“The Black folk song, the rhythmic cry of the slave, stands today not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the seas.” - W. E. B.

In honor of the 161st anniversary of the Saints entering the Salt Lake Valley, I would like to explore the relationship between two of the most profound spiritual movements of the 19th century: ...

The African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, one of the area’s premier arts training institutions, will kick off Black History Month with a celebration of African-American spirituals presented by local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — It's a journey that started back in 1972 when Brazeal Dennard, a choral director and music arranger in Detroit, found that while attending ...

An ongoing archaeological project in Annapolis, Md., is revealing what life was like for African-Americans before and after slavery. Many of the finds detail how Africans were able to preserve their ...

The Skeleton Key is a Southern Gothic horror story about a young woman who encounters the supernatural in the swamps of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. It’s easy to see why it was a big hit at the box ...

Historian Dr. Lindsey Swindall is hosting an afternoon of reflecting on and listening to the poignant music of African American Spirituals on Sunday, March 28, at 4 p.m. It will be live streamed on ...

(RNS) — The pastor of the online Proverbial Experience mixes African spiritual practices with Christianity for worship 'that is fully integrated with who I am.' (RNS) — It’s 11:11 on a recent Sunday ...

It’s instantly apparent from the opening moments of “Jubilee” what this work, created and directed by Tazewell Thompson and having its world premiere at Seattle Opera, honors. The rousing overture has ...