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Known for their versatility in music, the Ambassadors Concert Choir has been wowing and inspiring audiences since 1979, but this summer they’ll take on a new challenge.
To speak Black Church is to say “in that great gettin’ up morning” as casually as someone else would say “have a good day.” It is to laugh when someone compares something that is taking too long to a ...
Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church Mass Choir, Joanna Hale-McGill, Loyola University New Orleans Jazz Ensemble, Cheyenne, Black Mohawk, and Young Seminole Hunters Mardi Gras Indians ...
Thompson, at 620 Melbourne St., to begin the organization of the first Black Congregational church in Michigan. Marian Kinney Stephens, 90, of Detroit, shares a hymn during Gospel choir practice ...
Some of the instruments at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, the historically and majority Black house of worship, are the voices of its choir. Their vocal talents, accompanied by a band, help usher in ...
Proud Boys destroyed Black Lives Matter signs at two historically Black churches during a violent night in the city. “The act of destroying these signs was not just alcohol-lubricated ...
WASHINGTON — There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for Rosa Parks and Frederick Douglass and opened its pews to ...
Since its founding during the era of slavery, the Black church has made community service and social justice core parts of its mission. A survey of faith leaders found the Black church is far more ...
The first Black congregations in America pre-date the nation’s founding in 1776. Since then, African American churches continue to support faith, and the fight for Civil Rights across the ...
Knox News sat with Kesler to talk about what’s ahead for Beck, for Knoxville and for Knoxville’s Black Church (the group, not a singular congregation). Much of the discussion centered on the ...