There’s something about listening to great old-school style gospel songs that always seems to revive a tired soul. Over the years, gospel music’s most beloved vocalists have served up songs that have ...

This month, WFUV will broadcast a new radio documentary produced by our friends at WXPN in Philadelphia and hosted by CeCe Winans, which explores the history of black gospel music and illustrates its ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first discovered Edwin Hawkins, I didn’t just hear gospel music — I felt it. His songs didn’t just stay in the church pews; they followed you home, filled your living room, ...

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 ...

It's a gospel group that's been around since 1926 and which is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There have been different variations of the group over the decades, and members have come and gone, ...

Mark Rios, the writer, director and lead actor of the acclaimed indie mobster TV series "A Family Thing," has created and produced an intimate new stage show about Elvis Presley that explores The King ...

On this episode of Top 5, Toronto soul and R&B maven Daniel Caesar digs into the gospel deep cuts, from Kirk Franklin to Commissioned. Gospel, Caesar explains, is vital to his songwriting; he grew up ...

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ONCE AGAIN WITH FEELING: Flossie Boyd Johnson & Favor, seen here performing in Hartwell, Ga. on June 20, kick off the monthly Soul Gospel Night at the Double Crown on Thursday, July 30. Steve Mann ...

Post-war black gospel music shaped soul sounds through the mid-1970s, but it's increasingly hard to find today. Rock historian Ed Ward discusses a few recent gospel reissues. This is FRESH AIR.

In the late 1960s and '70s, Memphis was home to dozens of obscure record companies that snapped up regional artists who were either missed or ignored by the city's large labels, such as Stax, Hi and ...