these songs laid the groundwork for the development of other forms of music in America. The Fisk University Jubilee Singers was the first group to publicly perform the songs of slaves and they ...

After three years in Silver Lake, the Jubilee Music & Arts Festival staged its first event in its new downtown location this weekend – and it was a success. The tunes were rocking, the beats ...

Although only freeing slaves in Confederate-controlled areas, Lincoln's proclamation made ending slavery a central issue of the Civil War. Almost 200,000 African Americans fought for the Union ...