In “Jesus is King,” West attempts to combine a theology rooted in contemporary white evangelicalism with black gospel music ... Rapper’s album “Coloring Book.” In their albums, Lamar ...

How African-American music got under my lily white skin. I’m a white guy raised on the fringes of West Texas. So why is it that I’ve always felt so connected to black gospel music? And why, on ...

For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books while imploring scholars that we ... the social gospel arose during the same period as the famous white one.

African American pastors are less likely than white pastors to believe that the gospel mandates racial reconciliation ... CT has noted the growing gap in how black and white Christians think ...

So let us not sound the death knell of black gospel music. We all need it still. Music alone will not cure our country’s racial ills, but bold musical changes within white evangelical churches ...

But she's an urban gospel music ... YOHE: Because white people want to come in and they want to sing the few songs, hear a sermon, and be out in 30, an hour, 90 minutes. Black people, we want ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) —The interplay between song and sermon — and the importance of both in Black churches — is the focus of a new docuseries created by scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. “Gospel ...

For generations, gospel music has been a vital source of strength and resilience for Black Americans, sustaining them through the deepest struggles. From the days of slavery, spirituals and hymns ...

Two former presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention, one Black and one white, are seeking to bridge the racial divide in the Deep South. They've launched gospel-focused discussion groups in ...

The great American poet Langston Hughes created the show in 1961 to tell the story of Jesus' birth through a Black lens, drawing heavily on gospel music. Directors have some freedom in how they ...