WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES JR” February 13, 2025 9:00 – 11:00 pm Explore the Origin of Black Spirituality Through Sermon and Song ...

Gospel music has its origins in the hymns, spirituals and sacred songs found in Afro-American culture in the 18th and 19th Century. Gospel songs were originally sung by African slaves. Lyrics ...

“Black spirituals are at the heart of all American ... But “Chicago has always been the leader for gospel music,” Robertson says. “You had Albertina Walker, Bessie Griffin, Thomas Dorsey ...

“We try to do a combination,” Davis said. “We do Negro spirituals, which are the slave plantation songs of the late 1800s, and then we do some contemporary gospel.” The songs the group performs are ...