Liars are given special attention in African American spirituals. It never occurred to me why until the last days of the 2024 ...

Walter Strickland's sweeping narrative of African American Christianity portrays a big God who is strong to deliver.

With a mix of freedom songs, African American spirituals, gospel music, traditional African folk melodies and reggae, this was a celebration not only of the passengers’ role in helping to ...

Music played a key role in African American religious life. Hymns and spirituals, many written by black composers, accompanied preaching in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and other ...

early African American music would become a unifying and driving force among America's slaves. Spirituals, as many of these songs came to be called, expressed faith in God, helped make work more ...