February is just around the corner, which means Liberal’s Black History Committee is finalizing plans for the annual Black ...

As Americans celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on MLK Day, many spend time reflecting on his iconic ...

Brian Colbert was officially sworn in at Tuesday's Marin County Board of Supervisors meeting as the county's first Black ...

The decade between 1952 and the early 1960s was the peak period for the style of music we now call doo wop, after which it got dissolved into soul music, girl groups, and within pop music in general.

African-Americans have made incalculable contributions to music. In the words of Quincy Jones, “I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT GOSPEL SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MEASURED BY ...

Michael Robertson grew up singing church songs out of hymn books—classics like “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” and “Lord, I ...

What better way to celebrate than with a curated list of iconic Black Christmas songs that have become staples ... Behold the Lamb” is a contemporary gospel classic that has become synonymous ...

The belief system is sometimes called “seed faith,” “health and wealth gospel,” or “prosperity gospel.” In the past half-century, driven by larger-than-life pastors, it has overtaken ...

But when she auditioned for the jazz studies program in college, she says she knew just one jazz song. That jazz song ... sang with the acclaimed Savettes, a gospel group out of Philadelphia.

And this spring, the song was one of 25 added to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry, a collection the library deems “some of the defining sounds of history and culture.” ...