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Fisk President Agenia Clark focuses on relationships, finances after dodging shortfall
Agenia Walker Clark spent her first 18 months at Fisk University focused on its finances, its standing in the community and ...
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers Celebrate 150 Years of Songs and Spirituals
When I stepped into Jubilee Hall on the campus of Fisk ... who was so entranced that she commissioned a portrait of the singers and presented it to Fisk University as a gift.
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers’ amazing story, from slavery to stardom
The late Paul Kwami leads a rehearsal in Jubilee Hall on the Fisk University campus in June 2022. A large portrait of the original Singers (background) was a gift from Queen Victoria following a ...
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141 years later, Fisk Jubilee Singers return to England
With Fisk University (which was housed in ... of black students and the gem of Fisk's campus. Jubilee Hall today is home to a life-size portrait of the 11 Fisk Jubilee Singers who traveled to ...
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From Fisk, A Double Jubilee
In 1871 the Fisk Jubilee Singers toured Europe to raise funds for Fisk University ... recalling a portrait of the original singers when they performed for Queen Victoria. Without a choir director ...
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National Museum of African American Music to display Fisk Jubilee Singers exhibit
On Thursday, the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) announced that it will soon present an immersive Fisk Jubilee Singers exhibit. The exhibit, "Jubilation! Ambassadors on a Sacred ...
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Fisk Jubilee Singers continue to sing spirituals 150 years later
The Fisk Jubilee Singers, based at the historically Black university founded by the abolitionist ... stood on stages from New York’s Carnegie Hall to Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.
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Nikki Giovanni remembers the time she met Queen Elizabeth, and found something in common
The funds collected from their tours amounted to enough to keep Fisk University open and funded Jubilee Hall, the ... A life-sized portrait of the 11 Fisk Jubilee Singers who toured England ...
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Alice Randall Talks Country Music’s Black History At Fisk University
She highlighted the contributions of American composer and bandleader, Lil Hardin Armstrong, a former undergraduate student at Fisk University who lived in Jubilee Hall. The late jazz pianist made ...
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Paul T. Kwami, Fisk Jubilee Singers’ Longtime Director, Dies at 70
Image Dr. Kwami inside Jubilee Hall at Fisk University, named after the Jubilee Singers, last year.Credit...William DeShazer for The New York Times Paul Theophilus Kwami was born on March 14 ...
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Fisk Jubilee Singers Alumni Concert
Former Fisk Jubilee Singers Arica Ellis, Kimberly Fleming and George Cooper talked about their years in the iconic choir and how they feel about returning to the university for the Fisk Jubilee ...