BALABAN: Reginald Golding, the music director of the Howard Gospel Choir at Howard University, says it's not surprising, then, that "Amazing Grace" would become a staple of the civil rights movement.

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption ... Newton left seafaring behind to preach the gospel, yet he continued to invest in the slave trade for another decade.

“Amazing Grace” has stood the test of time because ... Black Christians took the song and made their own. The first two gospel recordings were made in New York City in 1926 by Rev. H.

Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace, which tells the story of the singer’s 1972 gospel album, is subject of more legal issues. The film, which was mired in limbo for 46 years as a result ...

Here is one of America’s great gospel singers and one of America’s great leaders, united in “Amazing Grace.” While there are many performances of “Amazing Grace” that you praise ...

WASHINGTON — White House staffers rose to their feet to sing "Amazing Grace" after evangelist Franklin Graham delivered the Gospel during an Easter ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive Office ...

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 ...

roof-raising title track of her 1972 live album – the most successful gospel album of all time. However it was performed, Amazing Grace was a spiritual tonic in troubled times: a song of ...