WASHINGTON -- "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," a civil rights hymn that speaks to the faith and resilience of African Americans, was sung for the first time in 1900 at the height of segregation and ...

Strings and wood become harp and drum accompanying cellist Abel Selaocoe's chants and throat singing in his new album, Hymns of Bantu, out this month. It's just one of the many ways he makes alchemy ...

The Best of AJC Black History Month: This story originally ran on Feb. 1, 2018, as part of AJC Sepia’s Black History Month Series. Every morning, the kids at the Johnson Learning Center stand up and ...

A TikTok video showed Hawaiian natives singing a popular South African song in a video that went viral The Hawaiian singers left people stunned after they sang in South Africa's second biggest African ...

As the national reckoning over racism grew over the past few years, many churches put up Black Lives Matter signs. A few are now going a step further and are trying to acknowledge financially the ...

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