The plaque is to honor the two million captive Africans who died during the Trans-Atlantic Crossing known as the Middle Passage and the 10 million who survived.

Some of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in human history weren’t planned in boardrooms or laboratories. They happened because someone noticed something strange, left a window open, or dropped ...

It was Christmas 1906 and the Reverend Percy Dearmer was making preparations for services at his Primrose Hill church. The Kilburn-born clergyman was selecting carols for his congregation to sing at ...

Hymnals in many churches went the way of VCRs and cassette tapes, in favor of big screens and downloading worship songs through licenses with liturgical music publishers. Now, however, books of ...

About three years ago, musician and former biologist Tarun Nayar kickstarted a supposedly novel musical fad on TikTok. By sticking electrodes into mushrooms, he collected the mycelia’s bioelectrical ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” ...

Takeaways From AP's Report on Why Pre-Civil War Hymnal 'The Sacred Harp' Is Getting an Update BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes ...

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order naming English the official language of the United States. The order revokes a Clinton-era order that required federal agencies to provide ...

Jordan Smith, winner of "The Voice" season 9, is releasing his sixth album, "The People's Hymnal," on February 21. The album features a blend of traditional gospel music with influences from artists ...

In a recent interview, I imprudently said I was a “cultural Christian”, and I haven’t heard the end of it. I find myself unwillingly counted in the Great Christian Revival (translation, “We don’t ...

Some carols have very little to do with Christmas at all (Getty) Many of the Christmas carols we sing today have nothing to do with Christmas at all - some would have been illegal to sing in church in ...

A festive carol service has taken place in a Gloucestershire village to mark the anniversary of a worldwide famous composer who was born in the county. It was in 1874 when Gustav Holst was born in ...