Gospel icon Kirk Franklin was spotted on March 8 at Hotel Bennett in downtown Charleston on March 8. He was in town for the ...

Experts plan to address several health problems among African Americans at the 2nd annual Black Family Wellness Expo on ...

For Alexander Simone, legacy is walking down the road created by two iconic Black women while paving his own. As the grandson ...

Black history was celebrated through gospel music and spoken word at a special event honoring the Civil Rights era in ...

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at ...

LERONE MARTIN: He's known as the Happy Am I preacher, so he has this kind of charisma, smiling, very happy. My name is Dr. Lerone Martin, and I am the director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research ...

“I always tell people I’m a student of Black culture,” said A’Keen ... ‘Can it be a calypso celebration song?’ ‘Can it be a quintessential ‘90s/early 2000s gospel sound?’ And we have a jazz swing ...

In her new book “Becoming the Pastor’s Wife,” Beth Allison Barr, Ph.D., The James Vardaman Endowed Professor of History at ...

Samples continue to be a huge part of our current music culture. Some of the biggest artists in the world have used them to create incredible hit records that have gone on to become classics in ...

The intimate Black Box space at 1060 Union Ave. transforms into sacred ground for this musical testament that runs through April 6. While Mahalia Jackson would eventually come to be known as the ...

Tucked in the corner of a library on the Baylor University campus in Waco, the Black Gospel Archive is giving old gospel recordings new life. "I had absolutely no exposure to gospel music when I ...