While an engineering student, Aaron F. Henderson landed a job recording chapel services and performances of the choir for then-Tuskegee Institute. He’d arrive at 6 a.m. to set up microphones and the ...

Lisa Harris was part of the way through singing "Walk in Jerusalem" when people rose to their feet and began to clap, dance and sing along. Without a drum or instruments, Harris sang the old spiritual ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced ...

I was doing some research the other day, and as usual, I got sidetracked off on another subject. I ran across a YouTube video of Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing an old black spiritual, “Ain’t Gonna ...

One of America’s renowned poets partners with a former Jazz Messenger on a collaborative album of Black sacred songs. “Our people were not uneducated, they were un-degreed,” says iconic poet and ...

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"I have long felt a powerful draw to the old spirituals passed down in my community,” says Jake Blount in the liner notes of his 2022 album, “The New Faith” — though he admits to being “an unlikely ...