Alice Randall discussed Fisk University and Black women's important role in the foundational roots, profession of country music.

February 9, 2025 • The Swindell Brothers with Bishop J.J. Wilkerson were one of the more unique quartets in gospel music – witness their charming "Judge Not." February 2, 2025 • The Bells of ...

As Alice Randall completes her year-long tour for her memoir and album My Black Country, the award-winning songwriter stopped to visit Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, to discuss how country ...

Black musicians faced discrimination and segregation while touring, even as late as the 1950s and 1960s. Despite progress, Black artists still face challenges including subtle forms of racism.

“He possessed a signature voice that was unmistakably his own.” A pioneer in gospel music, particularly in quartet gospel, Huey P. Williams is considered a cornerstone of the genre. His family ...

WEGO FEST: The family-friendly festival featuring bands, arts and crafts, kids' activities, food and more will be held April ...

Vinyl is a limited run of 100, cut and mastered pristine, with a 12” x 12” lyric insert on which White also details the album ...

"I sang in my high school choir, college choir and the gospel choir of my ... she had formed the Harambee Singers, African-American women who "had the energy of black pride," Reagon says.

Overnight, Frankie Lymon was the hottest singer in America, off on a world tour. He was 13 years old. That made him the first black teenage ... from gospel quartets. In America, beginning in ...

Even though jazz has been around for well over a century, it’s still viewed by some people as the coolest, hippest music there is ... Mingus’ deep blues and gospel influences.

Kennedy String Quartet will perform the songs of Whitney Houston ... Meyerhoff Courtyard as students from the Baltimore School of the Arts’ Black Student Union celebrate their music and literary ...