Sister Ernestine Washington’s recording of “Somebody Touched Me” with the Washington Temple Camp Meeting Choir shows us just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A choir sings traditional gospel music. Staff Sgt. Bernardo Fuller The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony ...

“The Black folk song, the rhythmic cry of the slave, stands today not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the seas.” - W. E. B.

In many churches, they have. But the choral tradition is finding enthusiastic advocates elsewhere. Nathan Glasper Jr. directs Calvin University’s gospel choir, an ensemble that started as a club at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images The 41st annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards will spotlight the range of Black gospel music, from John P. Kee and ...

Film tells a story of a faith-filled choice that became Della B. Robinson’s (singer and former wife of legendary musician Ray Charles) greatest act of worship. LOS ...

Award-winning gospel singer Richard Smallwood has died at the age of 77, leaving behind a legacy that “clearly and solidly changed the face of black gospel music.” An official announcement from ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive, described as the largest black gospel collection in the world, is expanding its mission to preserve hymns, records and programs from ...

This year marks 100 years since the first Black History Week that we now recognize as Black History Month. Today, we're focusing on a genre of music, gospel, that is a cornerstone for the Black ...

nmafmai copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In September 1963, the Angelic Choir of the First Baptist Church of Nutley, New Jersey, teamed up with rising gospel star James ...