In this presentation, Rev. Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan provides an overview of African American spirituals, their connection with Scripture, and how the living and performance of these “chants of collective ...

Shown here, the Boulware Bible, gifted at age 14 to AFRO Special Projects Editor Rev. Dorothy Boulware, who used the pages to record births, deaths and important dates— like her 1968 wedding.

A Bible carried during civil rights demonstrations and other artifacts are being quietly removed from the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the nation’s capital ...