This special concert is part of the Old School Gospel Series which brings together the best in traditional gospel music. Get ready to be inspired and uplifted by the soul-stirring harmonies and ...

We came from the school of wanting ... the 1,000-year-old music of the West African griots (or oral historians) with the field hollers of Black American slaves and the gospel, blues, jazz, rock ...

The two then traveled across the street to the historic home of the legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, who was one of Chatham's first Black ... Burton's old grammar school, Dixon Elementary ...

Quick: What image comes to mind when you hear the word ragtime? Probably straw hats, lemonade and your kid trying to play “The Entertainer” on the piano. But in the 1890s and 1900s, the sound ...

In 1950, it was one of the first songs recorded by 19-year-old Cooke ... hand-picked a group of black men to join her for “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” (the gospel classic featured in the ...

But in a career that stretched across three-quarters of a century, what may have been more important about this giant of American music ... Gifted and Black” and the live gospel album ...

Although he was mainly raised in Virginia, Shaboozey spent two years at a boarding school in Nigeria ... Much of Shaboozey's music is inspired by his love for old Western films, per NBC.

Short lines, or no lines, greeted Election Day voters at many North Carolina polling places Tuesday morning, apparently due ...

During the 1770s and 1780s, black ministers began to preach to their own people, drawing on the stories, people and events depicted in the Old and New Testaments. No story spoke more powerfully to ...

In 1964, a time when Black musicians almost never held positions of power in the music business, the 28-year-old Jones became vice president of Mercury Records. In 1978, Jones produced the soundtr ...

Osbourne told Rolling Stone earlier this month that he was excited to hear Black’s speech because he has an immense respect for the actor. “Jack invited my family to the School of Rock movie ...

Geordie Greep: The Black Midi ... the 25-year-old deadpans from his London home, in the staccato accent that’s become his idiosyncratic signature. “I had a few of these songs with these ...