The Marian Anderson Museum recently reopened its doors after more than four years of rebuilding and renovations and there's a ...

Lyndon Johnson hired Geri Whittington as his secretary because she was the most qualified. She was also the first Black woman ...

If you are driving along any Laney Walker Boulevard, and you just so happen to see a huge mural with images that include ...

Lee Wind asserts the books he writes could have changed his life back when he was a "young Gay Jewish kid."  His books preach ...

We started out in the early 20th century (1925-1949), when women like Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Maybelle Carter and Marian ...

Philadelphia-born songstress Marian Anderson is having a moment in the ... and other well-funded institutional celebrations of the singer. Columnist Elizabeth Wellington visited the museum to ...

Visitors to the area included agricultural scientist George Washington Carver, famed contralto Marian Anderson, and blues singer and pianist Dinah Washington. The district’s success represented ...

Capathia Jenkins, a powerhouse singer who has appeared on “The ... who perform in concert at 3 p.m. on March 30 in Philadelphia’s Marian Anderson Hall. Temple alumnus Lucas Walden conducts.

Not often does a singer go from unamplified to amplified and then back ... hundreds and hundreds of times. (He was Marian Anderson’s accompanist.) There was one encore, “O mio babbino caro,” from ...