First lady Eleanor Roosevelt had assembled an integrated crowd of 75,000 people—an unprecedented honor for a Black artist—who listened in solemn awe.

The Marian Anderson Museum in Philadelphia is back open after five years of renovations to repair damage from a burst pipe.

On Easter Sunday 1939, the classical singer accepted Eleanor Roosevelt’s invitation to give a public concert and wrapped herself in a fur coat that cold day after she was kept out of Washington ...

Strong women have always been at the forefront of progress and change - challenging norms, breaking barriers, and paving the ...

What the group did not count on was the dissent of one of their members, first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who resigned from the DAR in protest and assisted in the effort to find an alternate venue ...

Marian Anderson arrives in London in 1952. On June 8, 2024, the Philadelphia Orchestra named its main performance hall in her honor.