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Dozens of hymn choirs are expected to gather and sing Sunday in Rock Hill at a Black History Month celebration of the music. The event is at 4 p.m. at the Kenneth Monroe Transformation Center of the ...
It's a song with a moniker — the "Black national anthem" — that stirs emotions throughout the U.S. But few people know that "Lift Every Voice and Sing," a hymn written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson, ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A mostly black gospel choir in Utah is bringing a vibrant new sound to familiar Mormon hymns and shining a light on the increasingly global component of a faith that has more ...
Scholars agree the song, endowed with its deep history of Black pride, speaks to the universal human condition Janelle Harris Dixon - Museums Correspondent "The lines of this song repay me in elation, ...
Shouts of praise overflowed from the sanctuary of Sardis Missionary Baptist Church in Birmingham as choral members from Alabama's two largest historically black colleges and universities ushered a ...