Kierra Sheard came from a musical family. Her mother, Karen Sheard, and three aunts were part of the Grammy Award winning gospel girl group the Clark Sisters. At nine years old, she secured the Best ...

When you think of rock ‘n’ roll, you might not think of high heels and a long church coat. But it turns out one of the pioneers of the genre was a Black woman who survived Jim Crow and became one of ...

You don’t have to read far in the biographies of Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding to discover that they grew up singing in one church or another. In fact, ...

The sound of drums, piano chords, clapping hands and vocal riffs filled the Alice Millar Chapel on Tuesday during the “Gays and Gospel” event. School of Communication Dean E. Patrick Johnson and ...

Voices of praise will ring out in Cortland from two newcomer guest choirs, the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers of Ithaca, N.Y., and the Promise Land Church of Syracuse (N.Y.), during SUNY Cortland’s ...

A Must-See Holiday Celebration: Black Nativity: A Gospel Christmas Musical Experience is a triumph of music, movement, and culture. A perfect blend of tradition and artistry, it brings the story of ...

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Most Powerful Voices gospel singing competition, presented in conjunction with television network UP, returns in search of dynamic gospel ...

Over the past two decades, Baylor University's Black Gospel Archive has collected and digitized more than 60,000 gospel songs, making it one of the largest digital gospel collections in the world. The ...

This column is part of our ongoing Opinion commentary on faith, called Living Our Faith. Find the full series here. It is an exercise in sheer exuberance that many gospel music artists continue to ...

Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Kip Lornell, a George ...

The Citadel of Life Cathedral in Inverness was alive with music and praise at the recent Gospel Music Festival 2025.