Long before recording studios or radio stations existed, gospel music lived in the churches of the American South — and Mississippi was at its center.

As always, the Fourth of July will be filled with fireworks spectacles, parades and various types of family fun in Memphis and the Mid-South. But this year's celebrations will have an added emphasis ...

To mark this year's Fourth of July and America's 250th birthday, Memphis will live up to its reputation with a series of events that will surely have everyone in a celebratory mood. Whether you're ...

Mississippi's musical heritage, from blues to gospel, is celebrated in museums and through iconic artists who shaped the ...

There's no shortage of ways to celebrate the Fourth of July in Memphis and the Mid-South, from fireworks to parades.

See list of celebrities, artists set to perform at 83rd National Folk Festival in Downtown Jackson, Mississippi.

WASHINGTON — The music rises inside the Tenth Street Baptist Church — powerful, practiced, transcendent. Some choirs sing songs. Others carry something larger. For 70 years, the Jubilee Majestic Choir ...

Fort Valley State University Choir is competing for the 41st Annual Stellar Music Award’s first-ever HBCU Choir of the Year award. FVSU Choir, Facebook page Fort Valley State University Choir is ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Southern University Gospel Choir has received a huge honor. The musicians have been nominated for a Steller Award in the category of “HBCU Choir of the Year.” The Steller ...

Multiple tornadoes tore through central and western Mississippi on Wednesday, damaging roughly 400 homes and injuring at least 17 people, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.

The University of Alabama's Afro-American Gospel Choir is celebrating its 55th anniversary. A free concert will be held on April 25 at Weeping Mary Baptist Church in Tuscaloosa. Established in 1971, ...

The civil rights leader believed in a gospel bigger than race or self-interest. John M. Perkins, a bold evangelical voice who proclaimed the gospel against racism, died on Friday at the age of 95.