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 ...

While gospel music can be traced back to the early 17th century, black gospel music really took shape in the late 18th century, when slaves began converting to Christianity and proclaiming their faith ...

Not far from where Civil War re-enactors performed drills at Old Salem yesterday, the notes of traditional Negro spirituals filled the sanctuary at St. Philips Moravian Church. St. Philips was built ...

Those lyrics from "Soon I Will Be Done" blended in harmony as a choir of about 40 people performed it yesterday during a concert of Negro spirituals at Grace Presbyterian Church on Carver School Road.