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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...