gospel

The rising harpist explores spirituals, musical ancestors and the influence of church on her new album, Take Me to the Water.

The Black Gospel Archive at Baylor University is the world's largest digital collection of gospel music. Now, it wants to collect oral histories around its rare recordings.

Gospel superstar Marvin Sapp is going secular — if only for a few songs. His new mini-album is called "If I Were an R&B Singer."

The Black Gospel Archive at Baylor University is the largest digital collection of gospel music in the world. Now the Lilly Endowment has awarded the archive a $2.48 million grant to expand the archive.

An African American musical group in Michigan that's been singing spirituals since the Civil Rights era is about to give its final concert.

Soprano Latonia Moore's journey to the world's greatest opera stages began singing gospel — in her grandfather's church — and jazz

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Brent Cobb about his album, And Now, Let's Turn To Page..., which is a collection of spirituals and hymns. Surviving a car crash inspired him to make the album.

From the spirituals of the southern plantation fields and the soulful chords of black gospel, to the full-throated determination of protest songs…

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Paul Kwami, director of Fisk University's Jubilee Singers, on the commemoration of the Jubilee Singers Fundraising tour.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with gospel artist Pastor T.L. Barrett, Jr., whose collected work was recently reissued in a box set called I Shall Wear a Crown.