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 ...

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 ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. DALLAS – Watching a group of 16 young black men and women singing Negro ...

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 ...