American Black Journal explores Detroit’s impact on gospel music and Black spirituality. In conjunction with the PBS docuseries, “GOSPEL,” explore Detroit’s influence on gospel music. Gospel radio ...

Gospel music’s earliest sounds rose from enslaved voices. Later, Black churches fused those spirituals with European hymns. And when Thomas Dorsey moved to Chicago during the Great Migration in the ...

DEFENSE IS TO SLOW DOWN, ASK QUESTIONS, AND NEVER ACT ON IMPULSE. A LOCAL AUTHOR AND MUSICIAN IS CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH THROUGH MUSIC ONE. NEEDLESS PAIN WE BEAR. THE MARY PAXTON STUDY CLASS ...

The Black Gospel Archive houses records, cassettes and other artifacts from the "golden era of gospel." The archive, inside Baylor University's Moody Memorial Library, also holds an online collection ...

A companion series to the 2021 docuseries, “The Black Church,” and executive produced and narrated by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., directors Stacey L. Holman and Shayla Harris’ latest docuseries, ...

Music in the Bible -- The sixteenth century: roots of contemporary Christianity -- John Calvin and the institutes -- A mighty fortress: Martin Luther as songwriter -- First seeds: gospel music in ...

In a groundbreaking development for St. Louis’s cultural landscape, the historic Second Baptist Church is embarking on an ambitious journey to become the city’s first Gospel Music Hall of Fame (GMHOF) ...

*Kirk Franklin has become the first artist to score 10 No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Hot Gospel Songs chart. His latest single, ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

The Black Gospel Archive at Baylor University is the world's largest digital collection of gospel music. Now, it wants to collect oral histories... Black Gospel Archive fills gaps in gospel music ...

Over the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. The ...