Fanny Crosby was a renowned songwriter, best known for her numerous Christian hymns. Despite losing her sight as a baby, she wrote thousands of songs that touched the hearts of many people. Her music ...

Fanny Crosby, America's most prolific hymn writer, wrote 8,000 Gospel songs and hymns during a lifetime, which spanned nearly a century. She passed away in her 95th year. All of her days, except the ...

One of the more memorable parts of the Kennedy Center Honors last December was watching a gospel singer and children’s choir serenade actress Cicely Tyson with the hymn “Blessed Assurance.” In 2013, ...

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. was naming his upcoming PBS documentary on the Black church in America, he and series producer/director Stacey Holman quibbled over the title. Gates, host of "Finding Your ...