Randye Jones, in an article, “The Gospel Truth About the Negro Spiritual,” wrote: “Over the years, these slaves and their descendants adopted Christianity, the religion of their masters.

"In many ways, as Dubois and others say, music is the soul of Black folks," said Rev. Dr. Luke Powery, the dean of the Duke University Chapel.

The Negro spiritual is not just a sorrow song but also contains an irrepressible sense of triumph and a belief that in the end, “everything is gonna be alright.” ...

"In many ways, as Dubois and others say, music is the soul of Black folks," said Rev. Dr. Luke Powery, the dean of the Duke University Chapel.

Black Spirituals as Poetry and Resistance. These songs — the oldest musical expressions of the slave experience in this country — still have a lot to teach us about how we think about death ...

In James Weldon Johnson's novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, a light-skinned black abandons his efforts to create a high-class kind of African-American music, so as to live out his ...

The Houston African American Gala's annual concert will include black anthems, black... Black spirituals inspire today's sound Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Saving Black Spirituals An All-White Organization Works to Preserve, ... These were the words, in Gullah dialect, to a spiritual about the wish to die easily and to be taken into heaven by Jesus.

"In many ways, as Dubois and others say, music is the soul of Black folks," said Rev. Dr. Luke Powery, the dean of the Duke University Chapel.

"In many ways, as Dubois and others say, music is the soul of Black folks," said Rev. Dr. Luke Powery, the dean of the Duke University Chapel. 24/7 Live San Francisco East Bay South Bay Peninsula ...