Turn on almost any major pop or R&B record from the last seventy years and you'll likely hear it without realizing: the ...

He probably didn’t anticipate, though, that the most powerful American poetry would come from its songwriters. With the creation of jazz, blues, gospel, and country music, and the synthesis of those ...

From Thomas A. Dorsey to Andraé Crouch and Kirk Franklin, the worship genre has always integrated new sounds. When I was a teenager and heard “It Ain’t No New Thing” by Andraé Crouch and The Disciples ...

American Idol is taking the Grand Finale to church. In addition to Christian singer-songwriter Brandon Lake making an appearance, gospel pioneer Kirk Franklin will perform during the final episode.

Four years ago, Debora Wondercheck was trying to process scenes of civil unrest in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor taking place nationally and in Orange County, when she ...