But as the ambitious, celebratory “Gospel” lays out over four parts and two nights, spiritual music in the U.S. has transcended the pews and choir lofts to influence national politics ...

Welcome to Gospel Choir, the University of Toronto's first credit course in Black gospel music ... lap when he was two years old. "You learn these choruses and these songs and these hymns every ...

August 4, 2024 • Sterling Glass and the Metropolitan Singers are best known for their dramatic, 5 ½ minute version of the old spiritual, "Mary, Don't You Weep." ...

I’m talking mob justice.” The speaker was Ras Baraka, and he was already known around town as the principal of Central High ...

On the religious side, in gospel music, there were ... wiping out the old order. The flood wiped out the crops in the areas it devastated, so any black sharecroppers in that area knew they weren ...

During the 1770s and 1780s, black ministers began to preach to their own people, drawing on the stories, people and events depicted in the Old and New Testaments. No story spoke more powerfully to ...

Gospel music has its origins in the hymns, spirituals and sacred songs found in Afro-American culture in the 18th and 19th Century. Gospel songs were originally sung by African slaves. Lyrics ...

In 2022, the singer lost a second son when 31-year-old ... more Black gospel. But I didn’t want to hire two choirs. [Laughs] There’s a sort of uneasy relationship between gospel music and ...

Two years after debuting the “Titanic” parody, Marla Mindelle says her new show, with Margot Robbie as a producer, may be her ...

A United-Kingdom-based gospel singer, instrumentalist, composer and music director, Aideyan Osuyi, aka Gabriel, tells NAOMI CHIMA about his career and other issues What inspired you to pursue a ...

The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.

Black people have had a significant impact on every aspect of life. From entertainment to sports to politics, to business, we’ve made this world a better place. Sadly, 2024 has seen us lose some ...