Six months ago, for the first time in 50 years, I sang the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Aloud. In church. Off key. With ...
The 73rd OVI Regimental Band was founded in 2012 by Huffman and has toured across the country playing at reenactment events, concerts, and private performances. Notably, the group led the Remembrance ...
Sierra Madre Playhouse will present LETTERS TO HARRIET TUBMAN, a family-friendly play celebrating the life of the iconic freedom fighter, starting late February.
John Brown wasn’t just an abolitionist—he was a man willing to use violence to end slavery. This video explores the Harper’s Ferry raid, why it happened, and why it terrified the nation. It explains ...
Recently after worship at First Baptist Church Asheville, N.C., where I’m the interim minister of music, a choir member ...
The U.S. Postal Service held a first-day-of-issue stamp dedication to commemorate the life of Phillis Wheatley at the ...
I LOVE singing, but I assume that’s inevitable given the Welsh blood coursing through my veins. I’m a Christian too and, just ...
My time of basking in the glow of the recent “Season of Light” was brutally disrupted by the news of violent American aggression, from Minneapolis to Brazil. My antidote to anxious anger is ...
When Vietnam veteran Ed Emanuel wrote the memoir "Soul Patrol" (2003), the gesture could have been likened to that of a ...
Rifleman Badluram’s extraordinary legacy from the 1944 Battle of Kohima reveals how a fallen soldier unknowingly saved his ...
“To the lasting credit” of the city’s Black community and “because of the hard work of many men and women of both races and ...