Tramaine Hawkins was born to sing gospel music. Almost literally. “It’s true,” she said. Her mother, singer Lois Davis, left an Oct. 11, 1951, radio broadcast at her grandfather’s Ephesians Church of ...

The Sons of the Soul Revivers made their debut on July 4, 1970, at Friendship Baptist Church in South San Francisco. Fifty years later, the acclaimed Bay Area gospel music troupe is still going strong ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) If you’ve ever been in a place where your soul needed lifting—where the chaos of life pushed you to your knees and all you could do was whisper a prayer—then chances are, a Donnie ...

Once the music starts, Arthur "Bob" Beatty has a presence about him that is powerful and humbling, joyful and somber all at once. It was as if the mood inside the Chapman Cultural Center tangibly ...

Alabama Gospel Roots is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Before Sam Cooke became a household name with hits like You Send Me and A Change Is Gonna Come, he was simply a young man with a velvet voice, raised on gospel, rooted in faith, and ...

Mavis Staples is known as many things: soul hitmaker, civil rights trailblazer, 21st-century torchbearer of American gospel music, roots music luminary, world-class entertainer, and singular lead ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (KTVU) - A black gospel choir, in existence for almost forty years, is raising consciousness at the same time it raises eyebrows. "It's real, it's legitimate gospel music," Ulis ...

For 50 years, Pastor T.L. Barrett has delivered his sermons and gospel songs to his congregation in Chicago, but his musical impact has spread much farther. A sample of Barrett’s 1976 song “Father ...

One of the most popular and perhaps recognizable visual icons of the civil rights movement is sharecropper and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, as she speaks or sings. Hamer is often ...

The Soul Children of Chicago (SCC) is not just a choir; it is a movement that has been transforming the lives of kids and youth in the windy city for over four decades. Founded in 1981 by Dr. Walt ...