Thunderous spirituals continue to thrive, thanks in large part to the American Spiritual Ensemble, a group that McCorvey ...

"Spirituals" are the moving songs that were created by African-American slaves to both lament the horrors of life as a slave and speak to personal and religious values that offer hope. When slavery ...

An African American musical group in Michigan that's been singing spirituals since the Civil Rights era is about to give its final concert. A choir in Michigan's been keeping the tradition of African ...

The soprano is taking her talent to the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, singing in four languages and across diverse ...

REV. KELLY BROWN DOUGLAS, (Professor of Religion, Goucher College, and Canon Theologian, Washington National Cathedral): This is a very special evening of music, the music of the African diaspora, ...

Listen to Bobby McFerrin — onstage, warming up with his band — and it's like you're listening to an entire orchestra bubbling up through one man's body. He becomes a flute, a violin, a muted trumpet, ...

Negro Spirituals definitely came before jazz, blues, gospel music. The slaves created these songs before coming to freedom and then creating these other forms of music that were birthed out of the ...

I’ve talked about many spirituals in these articles that reflect the harsh conditions experienced by the enslaved. Many of the slave songs contain language that commented on their harsh treatment or ...

Classical music, and in fact American history is incomplete without understanding the story that spirituals tell, or hearing their melodies that can wrench the heart, elevate the soul and stick in the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Whether the lyrics are happy, sad, silly or all too true, one fact remains: Music is magic and speaks in ways almost too numerous to comprehend. The ...

The late Sister Thea Bowman, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration from Canton, Miss., was nationally known for her work to advance the life of her fellow black Catholics in the church. She ...