An old tradition has a voice in the Arkansas Ozarks, where Sacred Harp, a hymnal for shape-note singing that has become known ...

National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers sustains a hymn-like mood on her new record while ...

Faith, fellowship and family collide at the Union Grove Missionary Baptist Church, a tightly knit congregation tucked just ...

At age 5, Aquil Sudah first heard the “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” or as he prefers to call it, the Black National Anthem. The hymn, written by James Weldon Johnson and composed by J. Rosamond Johnson ...

The Rev. Dr. Brown explained in a 2019 Church News video that “Come, Come Ye Saints” and the iconic Black spiritual “Lift Every Voice and Sing” are two of his favorites because they tell the stories ...

St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...

The resilience, faith and purity of African American hymns come to life at the Historic Ward Rooming House with “Precious Lord, Take My Hand.” Presented by the Hampton Art Lovers, ...

From June 18 to 21, the Ritz Chamber Players performed a classical concert of all Black composers and musicians for the Jacksonville Community.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned it in school and stood for what is dubbed ...

Pastors, families, choir members joined in ... service and his rendition of the hymn a poignant moment as the country grappled with the horror of people gunned down at church. “Even though this ...