Pastor Shirley Caesar is shocked that she’s part of the latest social media craze. (Photo: Terry Wyatt/Getty Images for National Museum of African American Music ) Move over, Mannequin Challenge — ...

NPR Music's Tiny Desk series will celebrate Black History Month with Tiny Desk (home) concerts featuring legends in the world of R&B, jazz, gospel, and hip-hop. Each artist in this legacy lineup has ...

You may recognize some of the big names in gospel music – Kirk Franklin, Yolanda Adams and Marvin Sapp. But hands down, the Queen of Gospel music is Pastor Shirley Caesar. Caesar, a native of Durham, ...

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, it was seemingly nowhere you could go on the Internet without seeing a U Name It Challenge video. The latest viral video gone wild, someone snagged old footage of a ...

ATLANTA - Just days before the shooting massacre in Orlando, Florida, gospel singer Shirley Caesar spoke to Fox 5 Atlanta about the songs she writes to help people deal with tragedy. Caesar's latest c ...

*As we’ve reported, gospel great Shirley Caesar is not thrilled about her 2010 sermon that became the genesis , so to speak, for the “U Name it Challenge.” It had been reported that she was taking ...

A portion of Pastor Shirley Caesar performing “Hold My Mule” got flipped into a song and then a meme via the #UNAMEITCHALLENGE. Caesar says she’s excited by all the attention, but she’s cool on all ...

Singer, songwriter and pastor Shirley Caesar is an icon known as “The First Lady of Gospel Music.” In a career spanning over six decades, she has won 7 Grammy Awards and 8 Dove Awards. With her ...