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, ...

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 ...

In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of ...

When nine students and a music professor set off on a fundraising tour from Fisk University in Tennessee in 1871, they had no idea what lay ahead. They just hoped their talents as singers and the ...

WASHINGTON — Black History Month is a time to pause and remember the events and people significant to African-American history. Part of that legacy includes African-American spirituals. Spirituals ...

Historian Dr. Lindsey Swindall is hosting an afternoon of reflecting on and listening to the poignant music of African American Spirituals on Sunday, March 28, at 4 p.m. It will be live streamed on ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — It's a journey that started back in 1972 when Brazeal Dennard, a choral director and music arranger in Detroit, found that while attending ...

Alice Rasberry, 86, has been in the group, The Spirituals Project, for a decade. "History is so important," Raspberry told CBS News. "We sang them all the time. We learned spirituals when I was in ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Spirituals are the folk music first sung by Africans brought to this country as slaves. Arthur Jones is a psychologist at the University of Denver. This summer he was in ...

Nobody knows the trouble they saw, perhaps least of all an affluent, mostly white suburban church, yet its pastor said he believes American slaves and their spirituals are perfect guides for the ...

WASHINGTON — Black History Month is a time to pause and remember the events and people significant to African-American history. Part of that legacy includes African-American spirituals. Spirituals ...