“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 ...

Friends of Negro Spirituals presents is second community meeting of the year along with a program entitled “Passing on Negro Spirituals to Children, Youth and Adults: Keeping the Story Alive”. The ...

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. “ ...

In the North Carolina sharecropper’s shanty where Glenn Settle grew up, his mother used to sing the old Negro spirituals to him. Between songs, she told him: “If white and colored folks just got to ...

In observance of Black History Month, the Men’s Chorus at Saint John Baptist Church will sing Negro spirituals along with a cappella selections during the 11 a.m. worship service Sunday, Feb. 5.

Negro Spirituals Heritage Day on Sunday, June 22, 2008, 3:30 PM -5:30 PM, at the West Oakland Senior Center, 1724 Adeline Street, Oakland, CA. Doors will open at 3:00 PM. Although unofficial, Negro ...

Max B released “Super Bad,” the second single from his upcoming Negro Spirituals album, on Friday. The track previously appeared on the free mixtape Coke Wave 4, a collaboration with the rapper French ...

(RNS) — ‘Fisk Jubilee Singers are artists and do not limit themselves to just Negro spirituals,’ its director said. ‘There’s versatility in our choice of music when we have celebrations.’ (RNS) — A ...

Presents Negro spirituals, sung in pure form as they were a century ago on St. Simon's Island off the coast of Georgia. Introduces each song with explanatory titles and then several women sing them ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - They are songs that tell stories of suffering, faith, and hope, but this part of American history that has existed for hundreds of years is in danger of slipping away. Negro ...

The imprisoned rapper is already making plans ahead of his release in 2021. Imprisoned rapper Max B may have lost an ally with long-time associate enemy Jim Jones, but the rapper is not letting a ...

Max B aims to demonstrate a new side of his artistry on “Black and I’m Proud,” the first official single from his upcoming Negro Spirituals album. “It’s about me really evolving as a person, evolving ...