Almost 20 years after its founding to save a vanishing part of America’s Black gospel recordings, Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive looks to a future that includes Black preaching ...

Black people are spiritual beings, which contributes to our deep connection to gospel music. A 2021 Pew Research survey found that “belief in the divine is close to universal among Black ...

Ken Wydro, who co-created, co-wrote and produced the long-running 1983 Off Broadway hit musical Mama, I Want To Sing inspired ... to uplift the Black musical treasures of Gospel, jazz and R ...

The Black Gospel Archive’s walls are packed from top to bottom with records and sheet music reflecting decades of music history. “Baylor has the largest digital archive of black gospel music and ...

GOSPEL’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of Gospel — the dramatic explosion of Black sacred music and the segregated highways of the American South — which took the Lord’s music into the ...

What is Vy Higginsen’s most famous contribution to musical theater? Vy Higginsen co-wrote “Mama, I Want to Sing!”, which became the longest-running black off-Broadway musical in American history, ...

October 20, 2024 • Deep-voiced Jimmy Jones was one of the few lead bass singers to lead his own group – the Sensationals – in the history of gospel music.

Singer Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which ... prominently used as a rallying cry during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s." Calling the song the Black national ...

(KERO) — 7th annual Gospel Fest at Bakersfield High School's historic auditorium features gospel music, community unity, and awards. CSUB hosts the 7th annual Gospel Fest to celebrate Black ...

It was widely used in Black churches by then ... Kim Weston, 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' (1972) Kim Weston's emotional reading of this life-affirming gospel song emerged as a defining moment ...

I Want To Sing: The Whole Story) and a 2011 film adaptation starring Ciara, Lynn Whitfield, Patti LaBelle and Billy Zane. In 1998, Wydro and Higginsen founded the Mama Foundation for the Arts with a ...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The City of Henderson celebrated Black History Month with ... is known for her gospel renditions of classic songs and original works. She continues to inspire audiences ...