Thirteen students from Houston-area high schools participated in the inaugural Emerge Leadership Academy (ELA), a summer program hosted by the University of Houston Department of African American ...

For almost a decade, three local gospel musicians have shared their passion and spirit with students in the "Black Music" ...

The American Spiritual Ensemble, directed by Everett McCorvey, aims to keep the African American spiritual genre alive. PHOTO: HENRY HUHTULAG PHOTOGRAPH African American spirituals were the soundtrack ...

Let’s look at whose life stories they will tell! Lizzo as Sister Rosetta Tharpe Amazon MGM Studios has just announced that ...

The audience was actively singing and engaged when the Albany Freedom Singers sang “If You Miss Me at The Back of the Bus,” a ...

The chapter about this hymn explains that it belongs to the tradition of African American spiritual songs and prompts singers to imagine witnessing the Savior’s death and Resurrection. While the first ...

played by an African American genius in a vernacular American style, produced by one Turkish American for a record label owned by another Turkish American. The recording is not in or of the ...

which will feature the remaining hopefuls performing songs of faith in hopes of earning viewer votes. There are currently 62 contestants left on this season of American Idol, with Hollywood week ...

When musician Ella Jenkins appeared on the show, she brought Black diasporic music and her signature songs to televisions ...

Born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to college-educated Protestant parents and raised in nearby Canton, Bowman converted to ...

The song interpolated a melody from the African American spiritual “Wade in the Water” in the budding style of new jack swing ...