“The children of negro spirituals got to be the blues and then came jazz and R&B, and all of them used what was developed in the spiritual which was improvisation,” Jones said. The beats and melodies ...

A leading cultural expert has warned that families of the 14 SANDF soldiers who were killed in combat in the DRC should expedite the process ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

In celebration of Black History Month, the First Presbyterian Church presents a new concert series celebrating Black composers and African American spirituals.

That doesn’t mean they aren’t hungry for spiritual connection. Coleman, an ordained AME minister, an African-American ...