Kierra Sheard came from a musical family. Her mother, Karen Sheard, and three aunts were part of the Grammy Award winning gospel girl group the Clark Sisters. At nine years old, she secured the Best ...

The Corridor Counts, a grassroots social justice organization in Nassau County, is sponsoring the concert to help with voter ...

When you think of rock ‘n’ roll, you might not think of high heels and a long church coat. But it turns out one of the pioneers of the genre was a Black woman who survived Jim Crow and became one of ...

The sound of drums, piano chords, clapping hands and vocal riffs filled the Alice Millar Chapel on Tuesday during the “Gays and Gospel” event. School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson and ...

Voices of praise will ring out in Cortland from two newcomer guest choirs, the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers of Ithaca, N.Y., and the Promise Land Church of Syracuse (N.Y.), during SUNY Cortland’s ...

You don’t have to read far in the biographies of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding to discover that they grew up singing in one church or another. In fact, ...

These are just some of the Black gospel artists shaping the genre with powerful voices and unwavering faith, from legends to rising stars. For generations, gospel music has been a vital source of ...

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 ...

A Must-See Holiday Celebration: Black Nativity: A Gospel Christmas Musical Experience is a triumph of music, movement, and culture. A perfect blend of tradition and artistry, it brings the story of ...

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Most Powerful Voices gospel singing competition, presented in conjunction with television network UP, returns in search of dynamic gospel ...

This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on faith, called Living Our Faith. Find the full series here. It is an exercise in sheer exuberance that many gospel music artists continue to ...

Gospel music experts discuss the evolution and influence of Black religious music in America. For Black Music Month, American Black Journal’s “Black Church in Detroit” series examines the influence of ...