A spiritual masterpiece in miniature, Psalm 23 is also a poem of great ... to Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson.

Mahalia Jackson was seated nearby when Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up to the podium on Aug. 28, 1963, to address the 250,000 marchers who had come to Washington, D.C., to mark the 100th ...

Mahalia Jackson is having a moment, half a century after her death in 1972. One of the year’s best folk albums, Iris DeMent’s Workin’ on a World, contains the song “Mahalia,” written ...

Robin DaSilva stars as the title character in “Mahalia Jackson: Moving Thru the Light” at Black Ensemble Theater. | Michael Courier Photo Share With “Mahalia Jackson: Moving Thru the Light ...

And it was a song by soul singer Mahalia Jackson that stole the show. Mahalia Jackson took America to church 50 years ago. Minutes before her friend Martin Luther King Jr. announced “I have a ...

Mahalia Jackson was born in 1911 in New Orleans. When she was 16, she traveled the well-worn path up the Mississippi River to Chicago. Beginning in the 1940s, she was one of the first singers to ...

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story has been highly anticipated for fans since its late-spring premiere at the Pan-African Film Festival. Now, after garnering buzz online and screening at the ...

actor Jill Scott will play the Queen of Gospel, Mahalia Jackson, in Mahalia!, a new big-screen take that’s being executive produced by Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifah and her partner Shakim Compere ...

It is republished unedited in its original form. Tokyo — Modern soul music is the “same old hash warmed over,” says Mahalia Jackson, internationally famous gospel singer who rose from ...