It is featured in over 40 different Christian hymnals and sung in churches all across America, not just during Black History ...

Black Church is a language. The hymns, parables, wisdom expressions, and biblical narratives have combined with Black speech to create a distinctive mother tongue for those who grow up in the Black ...

The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.

It's been 10 years since a White supremacist gunned down Black churchgoers in Charleston. The families hope commemoration events spark action.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Thursday the addition of 11 songs to its new hymnbook, “Hymns–For Home and Church.” The hymns will be available on the Music Library ...

It was rarely used during church services. Instead, the hymnal was part of the social ... post-Reconstruction, Black singers founded their own conventions, he said. “The Sacred Harp ...