This American hymn, which tells of the faithfulness ... The most well-known hymn version is this one, written in 1967 by the South African songwriter, Sebastian Temple. It has become an anthem ...

There's nothing like the sound of Christmas hymns to evoke the joy ... Go Where I Send Thee” is a traditional African-American spiritual song. The counting aspect of the song — the verses ...

This very popular hymn, also know as “Here I am, Lord” was written in 1981 by the American catholic composer, Dan Schutte. The words are based on passages from the books of Isaiah and Samuel.

Music played a key role in African American religious life. Hymns and spirituals, many written by black composers, accompanied preaching in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and other ...

The singer was President Barack Obama, who had been addressing mourners at a 2015 memorial service for the Rev. Clementa ...

Tazewell Thompson's "Jubilee," about Fisk University's Jubilee Singers, has its world premiere at Seattle Opera.

This site presents audio clips, excerpts of texts, and historical facts relating to pamphlets written by African American authors between 1818 and 1907. This site features material from 18th ...

In honor of Hammon's 313th birthday, his poem "An Essay on Slavery" will be read at Joseph Lloyd Manor in Lloyd's Neck, where ...

American Girl is dedicated to racial equity, and as part of that commitment, they’re providing free books written by Black ... for justice and equality for African-Americans.

Given the university’s history with segregation, few of the pieces we have included were written by African-American students. Nevertheless, as a group, we strived to complicate popular understanding ...

migrations and collective social experiments of African Americans.” Other chapters are more impressionistic. Several consist of letters written to the author by his father, which describe the ...