Flowers have long been a powerful form of expression in African American culture, carrying deep meanings in celebrations, ...

He argues: The scripture is wrested, for Paul hath protested, They are as drunk as fools, or in falsehood abound. Allen closes his affirmation of early African American spirituality on an ...

“The children of negro spirituals got to be the blues and then came jazz and R&B, and all of them used what was developed in the spiritual which was improvisation,” Jones said. The beats and melodies ...

Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...