Michael Robertson grew up singing church songs out of hymn books—classics like “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” and “Lord, I Want to Be a Christian.” He attended Methodist and Baptist churches where ...

A $2.48 million grant from the Lilly Endowment is expected to help Baylor University expand its Black Gospel Archive and ...

Black people are spiritual beings, which contributes to our deep connection to gospel music. A 2021 Pew Research survey found ...

because even though she was a gospel singer, she appealed to the masses so much. So that's what you're doing with Black magic, because you're taking these songs and giving giving them the makeover ...

While African American women didn’t receive the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920 — giving the right to white women — African American women played integral roles from the ...

How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...

It’s another relatively quiet week in New Orleans, unless you’re a fan of classic rock cover bands. In that case, you’ve got ...

Buddy King's band had several hits in the 1960s and helped integrate popular music. The band was known for its version of ...

If the mission of gospel music ... of Gospel music, said in an interview, “and they continued that tradition. And they came from the best musical school in the world, the Black church.

She saw the 3-year-old banging on his aunt’s keyboard and singing the gospel song “Oh Happy Day.” She remembers her aunt ...

Frank Black, the Pixies mainman, welcomes us to his planet of sound: “You have to embrace the simplicity, the rawness” ...

A young Jimmy Carter was no stranger to gospel music growing up in the small rural town of Plains, Georgia during the ’20s and early ’30’. He heard it sung by Black tenant farmers working on ...