Gospel music, a powerful thread in Black culture, continues to shape Black identity and inspire generations. As Black Music ...

Called the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program, the 16-year undertaking has led to the digitization of thousands of vinyl records—45s and 78s rescued from basements, attics, and landfills.

The Black Gospel Archive houses a physical and digital collection of gospel records from the golden era, roughly 1945-1975. The shelves also display sheet music, record sleeves and other ...

Since Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project started in 2006, university librarians have digitized and archived 8,381 songs from thousands of records.

In the late 1990s a small group would gather at the McDonalds in Dayton, Tn. to sing the old Gospel songs. They brought their instruments and it was hamburgers and hymns.

Wilmer “Little Axe” Broadnax was a Black transman whose tenor voice raised him to fame in the 1940s and 50s during the golden era of traditional Black Gospel music. Born in Houston, Broadnax ...

At a time when Black Americans were protesting segregation and discrimination, gospel boomed as a form of protest. Songs like " We Shall Overcome " became anthems for civil rights protests.