For generations, gospel music has been a vital source of strength and resilience for Black Americans, sustaining them through the deepest struggles. From the days of slavery, spirituals and hymns ...

August 25, 2024 • The Rev. "Singing" Sammy Lewis was dubbed the Crown Prince of Gospel for recordings like "Jesus Paid It" for Vee-Jay Records.

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Alyn marks Black History Month with a special edition featuring lesser-known black artists who deserve greater recognition, including Blanche Calloway, Hazel Scott & Myrtle Jones. Show more Alyn ...

At the same time they offer competing normative accounts of what the Black church is, where it came from, and where it should focus its attention when it comes to social and political action. The ...

October 16, 2024 • Guitarist John Scofield picks 10 of his favorite tracks from his own catalog and shares the stories behind them as he celebrates 50 years of recorded music.

Cynthia Hale, senior pastor of Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur ... The connections between Greek letter societies and Black faith are long-standing and deep. When people gather for a funeral ...

"Black, white, everybody likes Motown. On Saturday evenings, we'll have contemporary jazz, and then Sunday is all-day gospel. " Perry said he's also started a nonprofit to restart such events as ...

At the prestigious Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, students allegedly downloaded a phone app that made whipping sounds and played it when a Black student walked by, according to a ...

After an uprising in Detroit in 1967, for example, the Black Christian nationalists strove through the destruction for a Black New World, including “rejecting what Cleage called the slave ...

And that complicates Vice President Kamala Harris’s ability to turn out the vote by relying on clergy, churches and a shared sense of what it means to be a Black Christian. Experts say the ...