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 ...

Sinach is one of the most famous gospel artists in Africa whose music has won her global awards and fans around the world. For over a decade, Sinach has impacted the global gospel music industry with ...

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.

(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 ...

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, ...

As the year closes, we thought it would be cool to compile a list of the best gospel songs of 2016. These tracks range from southern soul rhythms, to hip-hop soliloquies, and all that falls in ...

As many of us who grew up in the church community are aware, God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good. He may not come when you want him, but he’s always right on time. Great and mighty ...

From the late ’50s until his death in 1964, the great R&B singer Sam Cooke championed other important artists on his SAR Records label. Having launched his own career in the early ’50s as a member of ...

Students in the BYU Gospel Choir hope to share their testimonies by praising and worshiping God through gospel music in performances this week. In years past, the Black Student Union has asked ...

But Martin Luther King, Jr. could hardly claim "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" only for himself. It is the composition that changed gospel music, setting the terms for the miracles of personal ...