The resilience, faith and purity of African American hymns come to life at the Historic Ward Rooming House with “Precious ...

Explore the significance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the 125th anniversary symposium, highlighting its cultural and ...

Before streaming services, black music was pressed onto 78-rpm records, even before vinyl. As we wrap up our Black Music ...

Gospel music is a style that speaks to the soul. The fundamentals of its expression can be traced back to the late 1800s and early 1900s, through genre mixing blues, spirituals, hymns, African ...

Local crooner Jesse Dean performs for a summer picnic celebrating rural life at Ozark Folkways Saturday, June 29 in Winslow.

Though the faith-based film they made didn’t exactly connect with audiences, Johnny and June Carter continued to return to ...

It is often through art that Barrett’s family reckons with and embraces the part of its identity tied to race. Kennedy’s ...

Alabama Life & Culture; This uniquely Southern style of gospel music is revising its 180-year-old hymnal. Published: ; May. 29, 2025, 9:02 a.m.

A recent BFI season ‘Black Rodeo’ paid homage to the counterculture phenomenon of the African American ‘western’ and its bold repudiation of mainstream Hollywood tropes. At the European premiere of ...

Following her performance, DJ Godson played another set before 19-year-old spoken word artiste from St Vincent, Jaydealea Chambers, came on for her first performance outside the country.