“The children of negro spirituals got to be the blues and then came jazz and R&B, and all of them used what was developed in the spiritual which was improvisation,” Jones said. The beats and melodies ...

Gabriel Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church can trace its roots back to 1866. It was built by freed Black families in Cuffeytown, the oldest self-sustaining African American community in Virginia.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Artist Tahj “Queen Tahj” Williams rarely cruises through downtown New Orleans, but recently she did, ...

It’s not that easy to just do away with Black History Month. Almost 47 million Americans claim African American heritage, ...

Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, retiring Archbishop of Washington, D.C., will join Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, Archbishop of Newark ...

Growing up, I hated going to Sunday school. My parents waking me up too early on a weekend to attend a class that gave no report card and put me right back to sleep? No thanks. As an adult ...