http://blackgospelchoir.com Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:23:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WASHINGTON (BP)--Five members of a Baptist volunteer team being detained in Haiti met with a judge in Port-au-Prince Feb. 2, according to the Voice of America and other news reports Feb. 3. In all, 10 Baptist volunteers continue to be held by authorities in the capital city over allegations of illegally ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=610 The Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center will officially open on Monday, Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. Ceremonies dedicating the facility, located at Joyce Chapel United Methodist Church on West Willow Street, will be held beginning at 10 a.m. Lecia J. Brooks, the director of Montgomery’s Civil Rights Museum and an ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=606 The city and a church are close to a land-swap deal that would give a new home to a congregation displaced by fire, find a use for a former Superfund site and open a prime piece of downtown to redevelopment. Zion Baptist was organized in 1865 and grew into one of ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=603 St. Louis, MO Washington Metropolitan AME Zion Church was organized in 1865. It began with house to house prayer meetings led by the first known Pastor, Rev. Gary Matthews. Later, in 1865 the prayer group moved into it’s first building located at Fourteenth and Market Streets, St. Louis, MO. The choir ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=598 1917 - 1967Madame Cooke "was a prolific recording artist she started in 1949 and recorded extensively (mainly for Nashboro) until her death in 1967. During her years with Nashboro she almost always recorded with a male vocal group but prior to that made a series of recordings with The Young ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=587 Slave - Medal of Honor William Harvey Carney (February 29, 1840 – December 8, 1908) was an American Civil War soldier and the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor. Carney was born a slave in Norfolk, Virginia, but escaped to Massachusetts like his father through the Underground Railroad. ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=581 [caption id="attachment_572" align="alignleft" width="290" caption="Johnny Lee Clary, right,poses with Bishop George McKinney, who helped ordain him as a minister of the Church of God in Christ. "][/caption]SAN DIEGO, CA -- A former Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard says he was ordained in San Diego so he could serve the nation's ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=571 1926 -The Soul Stirrers have the great distinction of being the only gospel quartet to be inducted into the America's Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1988 and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. The group was formed by Roy Crain, who had launched his first quartet, ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=557 Tallahassee, Florida The mission of the Florida A&M University Choral Music Division is to provide the highest quality vocal / piano music at the undergraduate level for music majors embarking on careers as teachers, scholars, performers or composers. It is also the mission of the division to teach non-majors and ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=552 11 February 1920 – 25 February 1978 The First African American to reach the rank of (four-star) general. Born February 11, 1920 at Pensacola, Florida, he learned to fly while attending the Tuskegee Institute and after graduation in 1942 continued civilian flight training until he received appointment as a Cadet in the ... http://blackgospelchoir.com/?p=543