Two guest choirs will make their first appearance at the 31st African American Gospel Music Festival on Sunday, Nov. 6, at SUNY Cortland. The festival begins at 4 p.m. in Old Main Brown Auditorium.

Gospel music has always played a big role in American culture. Now, the music's wide-ranging history is being celebrated at ...

The 13th annual Eastside Kings Festival is set for this weekend. More than 20 bands and artists will play across five venues ...

Dr. Frances Murphy Draper serves as AFRO CEO and publisher. This week, she discusses the homegrown entertainers who have influenced American culture. (Courtesy Photo) As June arrives, so does the ...

Black Music Month has long been a time to celebrate the achievements, activism and work of Black creatives of every genre. From country and gospel to jazz and rhythm and blues, the indelible mark made ...

Four years ago, Debora Wondercheck was trying to process scenes of civil unrest in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor taking place nationally and in Orange County, when she ...

The Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin is presenting Gospel Fusion at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18, at First ...

Tucson’s a long way from Harlem—and while our town has plenty of culture, it’s not exactly exploding with African-American heritage. Sadly, Arizona didn’t count Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday ...

The association of movement and music as a manifestation of a Black conceptual approach to music-making / Olly Wilson -- West African influences and retentions in U.S. Black music : a sociocultural ...

nmafmai copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "In September 1963, the Angelic Choir of the First Baptist Church of Nutley, New Jersey, teamed up with rising gospel star James ...

Voices of praise will ring out in Cortland from two guest choirs and two SUNY Cortland ensembles during SUNY Cortland’s 30th African American Gospel Music Festival on Sunday, Nov. 1. This year’s ...