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"Just as I Am" is a Christian hymn, written by Charlotte Elliott in 1835, first appearing in the Christian Remembrancer, of which Elliott became the editor in 1836. The final verse is taken from ...
The Democratic Party has a “Black Elephant” problem they don’t want to talk about, African Americans to comprehend and voters to respond to on election day. That problem involves the growing ...
Sam Cooke: Peace in the Valley Sam Cooke grew up listening to “Peace in the Valley,” a song written in 1937 for ... was based on a traditional African-American spiritual, which started life ...
PHOTO: ANTHONY ADAMICK Banner Arts & Culture Sponsored by Cruz Companies Whenever Francesca McNeely heard “Wade in the Water” as a young girl, she simply thought the African American spiritual was an ...
He also noted that the hymn had been conceived and the lyrics written in Elmira. The story of the hymn is one of faith, compassion and creativity, but a bit challenging to bring together.
“Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press,” which opens Oct. 13 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum in New London, presents the unique vision and ...
On the chart of October 11, 1997, Urban Hymns entered at No.1, as it started a mission that saw it become one of the UK’s 20 bestselling artist albums of all time. The key to The Verve’s rapid ...
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 ...
“The Americans ... African and indigenous folk everywhere else as part of that other, nondescript, “world music” category. Being a prolific international figure himself, or rather “Hymn ...
Frostburg State University’s Department of Music will present a birthday celebration recital in honor of Adolphe Sax, the Belgian musician and inventor of the saxophone, on Sunday, Nov.
The acclaimed African-American author's new book marks his deliverance from Zionist prose and signals a broader cultural ...