As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Newton’s New ...
President Obama, in words and song, urged the nation to heal its racial rifts in a riveting Friday farewell to the black pastor murdered by a hate-fueled racist killer. Some mourners wept and others ...
When Phyllis Adams and Leila Bolden stood in the middle of Washington National Cathedral on Thursday to sing President Jimmy Carter home with a stirring rendition of “Amazing Grace,” it was a song ...
AMAZING GRACE: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn. By James Walvin. University of California Press. 216 pages. $19.95. When President Obama sang “Amazing Grace” at the funeral of the Rev. Clementa ...
"For too long we've been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflects upon this nation," he said. By The Associated Press President Obama Rev. Clementa Pinckney Funeral - H 2015 Invoking ...
The Oak Ridge Boys were longtime friends to President George H.W. Bush, and on Thursday (Dec. 6), they will get the chance to keep a promise they made to their friend and fan. The legendary country ...
Jennifer Hudson performed “Amazing Grace” in honor of Aretha Franklin at the Queen of Soul’s funeral in Detroit on Friday. This was no easy feat: Franklin was a fearsome gospel singer, and the version ...
Despite its bucolic name, the quiet hamlet of Sandy Point Town, St. Kitts, on a friendly island in the West Indies, has a history written in blood. In the 18th century, Sandy Point offered Caribbean ...
As we look at another New Year’s Day, it’s a good time to reflect on a song that unites rather than divides us: the Rev. John Newton’s hymn “Amazing Grace.” The hymn first appeared in Newton’s New ...
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