Featuring over 40 minutes of vintage performances by the world's greatest gospel singer, this is Mahalia at her most powerful, singing the beloved songs of the holiday season.Originally intended as ...

A new era is born.

(ThyBlackMan.com) Mahalia Jackson is undeniably one of the most influential voices in gospel music. As a pioneering artist, she transformed the genre, infusing it with the power of blues while ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) This marks the third time we’ve found ourselves returning to the music and ministry of the great Mahalia Jackson—and honestly, it still feels like we’ve only scratched the surface.

Gospel music legend Mahalia Jackson, who became widely known for her performance at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy and the funeral of her friend Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been ...

Mahalia Jackson didn't start out with aspirations of becoming the queen of gospel music. She was listening to blues in her earliest days, specifically the songs of Bessie Smith, the empress of the ...

While exploring the Historic New Orleans Collection's archives several years ago, Glen Smith, a gospel enthusiast from Ohio, made a remarkable discovery: Little-known recordings of the late great ...

Mahalia Jackson is having a moment, half a century after her death in 1972. One of the year’s best folk albums, Iris DeMent’s Workin’ on a World, contains the song “Mahalia,” written about the ...

So many people worldwide have been drawn to the immense talent of the late gospel singer and activist Mahalia Jackson. Considered one of the most influential artists of all time and a leader in the ...