“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 ...
Gabriel Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church can trace its roots back to 1866. It was built by freed Black families in Cuffeytown, the oldest self-sustaining African American community in Virginia.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Donald Trump’s “influential” billionaire adviser Elon Musk a day after the new U.S. president promised to cut funding ...