Oakland’s own Father of Gospel, Hawkins, still influences 21st century music with his Grammy-winning hit "Oh Happy Day," as ...

Songs of survival, defeat and hope swept through cotton fields in the antebellum south. Slaves used them to navigate a brutal ...

Gospel music and faith have long been a part of Black culture in the U.S. From hymns that would be sung on slavery fields to anthems of the civil rights movement, gospel has been there. Adeerya ...

GOSPEL’s hour 2 traces the Golden Age of Gospel from the Lord’s music to the mainstream. Starting in the 1940s, GOSPEL’s hour 2 explores the Golden Age of Gospel — the dramatic explosion of Black ...