“Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus. “Steal away, steal away home. “I ain’t got long to stay here.” To the slave owner, the melody was just keeping his slaves happy as they worked. He paid ...

Standing at the pulpit Sunday, light streaming in through the stained glass windows behind her, United Parish Minister of Music Susan DeSelms began to sing. “This little light of mine…” she started. “ ...

The lucky ones learned spirituals as children, from grandmothers whose own grandparents may have been slaves. Not only did they memorize “Wade in the Water,” but they heard how fleeing slaves trudged ...

Heritage, the Baton Rouge-based ensemble dedicated to the preservation and performance of the Negro spiritual, will host its annual Festival of Negro Spirituals on Saturday, Feb. 1. The 3 p.m. event, ...

The late Sister Thea Bowman, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration from Canton, Miss., was nationally known for her work to advance the life of her fellow black Catholics in the church. She ...

Heritage, whose mission is to perpetuate the “Negro spiritual” as a distinctive art form, will host its 24th annual Festival of Negro Spirituals on Feb. 7. The event, which will begin at 3 p.m., will ...

(RNS) — Zion Earle, a member of the youth choir at the Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music and Arts in the Roxbury neighborhood, sings Negro spirituals like “My Lord! What a Morning” at concerts in the ...

Heritage will hosts its 23 rd Annual Festival of Negro Spirituals on Saturday, February 1 at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, 185 Eddie Robinson, Sr. Drive, in Baton Rouge at 3 p.m. The event, which ...

We’re headed into the last weekend of Black History and The Marsh has just the show for the occasion. “An Evening of Negro Spirituals: Crossing Rivers and Building Bridges through Song” is a solo show ...

If I had a nickel for every time someone told me that “Ride On” was their favorite song performed by the Kuumba Singers, I would have a lot of nickels. If you’ve ever been to a Kuumba performance, you ...