DEFENSE IS TO SLOW DOWN, ASK QUESTIONS, AND NEVER ACT ON IMPULSE. A LOCAL AUTHOR AND MUSICIAN IS CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH THROUGH MUSIC ONE. NEEDLESS PAIN WE BEAR. THE MARY PAXTON STUDY CLASS ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 11: Singers Yolanda Adams (L) and CeCe Winans perform at a taping of We Will Always Love You: A GRAMMY ...

The Negro spirituals : plantation songs and jubilee songs, 1600-1870 -- The gospel songs : gospel hymns, historical gospel, and traditional songs, songs of Tindley, Dorsey, Campbell, and others, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rooted in the rich tradition of African-American spirituals. Gospel music has evolved over time. The genre's earliest beginnings ...

Looking back at the painful and difficult history of being Black in America, religion has always been an important cultural and spiritual backbone — constantly sustaining and replenishing the ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive, described as the largest black gospel collection in the world, is expanding its mission to preserve hymns, records and programs from ...

Over the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. The ...

Let’s be real: you’ve probably been fooled once (or twice) when you were riding in the backseat of your grandmother‘s Buick on the way to church when an unsuspecting jam came through the car’s ...

In early February 2025, I caught the spirit on an I-285 on-ramp in Smyrna. Black gospel found me, and hasn’t left me since. As a lifelong white person, I indulge in an annual Black History Month ...

Children’s minister and artist collect 150 songs to span generations. In 2018, Britta Wallbaum and Lindsey Goetz traveled to a worship conference in Nashville. They hoped to come away with new ...

For generations, gospel music has been a vital source of strength and resilience for Black Americans, sustaining them through the deepest struggles. From the days of slavery, spirituals and hymns have ...