These are just some of the Black ... to music, Sheard also has an acting credit to her name for portraying her mother in Lifetime’s “The Clark Sisters: The First Ladies of Gospel.” ...

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The Black Music Action Coalition is activating in Georgia to help get out the vote and utilize the power of music "to create ...

The historical significance of Black popular music in American culture is powerful. Even former President Jimmy Carter ...

Cissy Houston, the Grammy-winning gospel singer and mother of the late ... noting Houston’s “unparalleled” contributions to popular music. “Mother Cissy has been a strong and towering ...

She added that her mother-in-law’s contributions to music and culture are “unparalleled.” Singers Cissy Houston (left) and her daughter, Whitney Houston, at the Keep a Child Alive Black Ball ...

Cissy Houston onstage in 2012 and with daughter Whitney Houston in 1989 Everett Collection Cissy Houston, the two-time Grammy-wining gospel singer, mother of ... of the day, including Presley ...

For generations, gospel music has been a vital source of strength and resilience for Black Americans ... singing debut at the age of 9 on her mother’s album, “Finally Karen” (referring ...

Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning gospel singer who was the mother of late pop titan Whitney ... Her more than seven-decade career in music and entertainment will remain at the forefront ...

7 (UPI) --Cissy Houston, mother of the late singer and actor Whitney ... Advertisement A singer herself, Cissy sang gospel with her three siblings as the Drinkard Four in 1938 according to People.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cissy Houston, a two-time Grammy-winning soul and gospel artist who ... She said her mother-in-law's contributions to popular music and culture are "unparalleled." ...