GLENSIDE — “An Afternoon of Spirituals and Hymns” was presented recently by Joann Frasier Dasent, founder of Regenerating Our Offspring Through Stories, Inc., to bring her collegiate thesis “The ...

WEST OAK LANE >> When Joann Frasier Dasent decided to produce a production at her mother’s West Oak Lane church, she thought it would be an enjoyable, but simple, event. She expected that her ...

(RNS) — Zion Earle, a member of the youth choir at the Hamilton-Garrett Center for Music and Arts in the Roxbury neighborhood, sings Negro spirituals like “My Lord! What a Morning” at concerts in the ...

Watching J. Weldon Norris coach the internationally acclaimed Howard University Choir through a set of spirituals is something of a revelation for both the listener and the singer. That’s because ...

Some white congregations are paying what they're calling "royalites" when they sing hymns that come from the Negro spiritual tradition. They say it's a matter of racial justice. As the national ...