Mahalia Jackson would sing “Amazing Grace” to him on the telephone. If that isn’t an extraordinary insight into both those people, Jackson and King, I don’t know what is. Here is one of ...

BALABAN: Who could argue, for example, with the great gospel singer Mahalia Jackson? (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "AMAZING GRACE") MAHALIA JACKSON: (Singing) Me. And grace... BALABAN: Jackson met Dr ...

MAHALIA JACKSON: (Singing) Me. And grace... BALABAN: Jackson met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1956. She sang in Selma and at the March on Washington. And she even sang "Amazing Grace" to King ...

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of ... sang it on the Grand Ole Opry radio show in 1925. The gospel star Mahalia Jackson recorded a classic rendition in 1947. Paul Robeson included ...

Raising Aretha Franklin “Mahalia” barely touches on Jackson’s relationship to ... “How I Got Over,” on her 1972 album “Amazing Grace.” Friendships with JFK and Martin Luther King ...

The song acted as one of the pulses of the 1960s black liberation movement and Mahalia Jackson used it to employ protection for civil rights marchers. Amazing Grace, commonly sung at funerals held ...

There is another Mahalia Jackson project in the works at Lifetime ... on the Sparrow,” “Move on Up a Little Higher,” “Amazing Grace” and “Go Tell It On the Mountain.” ...

As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing ... varied as Mahalia Jackson, Elvis ...

Perhaps most memorably, “Amazing Grace” became one of the anthems of the civil-rights movement in the mid-20th century. Mahalia Jackson, a gospel singer, would croon it over the phone to ...

“Mahalia” barely touches on Jackson’s relationship to other ... “How I Got Over,” on her 1972 album “Amazing Grace.” Lifetime’s biopic makes Jackson’s relationship to civil ...

As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing ... varied as Mahalia Jackson, Elvis ...