Ann Arbor community members gathered at the Gerald R. Ford Library to listen to a lecture and performance by Reverend Robert ...

TheGrio spotlights Black gospel artists shaping the genre with powerful voices and unwavering faith, from legends to rising ...

Some things don’t deserve to be sung about, like slavery—especially when ... books about race relations in America. This is no ordinary love song, but then, few would expect normal from ...

He was writing songs professionally while ... the sediment at the bottom of the American experiment. “Sail Away” is related in the voice of a slave trader; “Rednecks” refuses to let ...

"Upon the subject of slavery in general and American slavery in particular ... did much by their soul-stirring songs to render the meetings interesting. "My Narrative is just published, and ...

A new opera called "Jubilee" based on the Fisk University Jubilee Singers makes its world debut this month with the Seattle ...

The word “Jezebel” was used during slavery and throughout U.S. history to describe Black ... As the attack took place, people ...

The biker movie was a commercial and critical hit in 1969, but its director, Dennis Hopper, was "a bit of a megalomaniac" ...

Beyoncé is slated to perform at Vice President Kamala Harris' upcoming campaign rally in Houston, Texas after previously ...

The hymns were simplified to the extreme, until they were nothing more than a tune and some religious lyrics; interacting with African American slave songs, the result was the spiritual tradition.

Eight years after the abolition of slavery in the United States, a choir of 11 African American singers ... By introducing audiences to ‘spirituals’ or ‘sorrow songs’, the group brought firsthand ...