While an engineering student, Aaron F. Henderson landed a job recording chapel services and performances of the choir for then-Tuskegee Institute. He’d arrive at 6 a.m. to set up microphones and the ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) - For nearly a quarter-century, the American Spiritual Ensemble has toured nationally and internationally with one mission - to keep the American Negro spiritual alive. “As a ...

I was doing some research the other day, and as usual, I got sidetracked off on another subject. I ran across a YouTube video of Sister Rosetta Tharpe singing an old black spiritual, “Ain’t Gonna ...

The 12th Annual Negro Spirituals Heritage Day takes place on Saturday, October 17, 2015 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the San Francisco Public Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street. Negro ...

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