The inspiring and untold story of how a brilliant African American choral director from Kansas, Eva Jessye, brought black gospel to...

The U.S. Park Service is preparing plans to preserve 25 to 30 remaining structures among the ruins of Old Quindaro Townsite. The...

Eva Jessye, born in Coffeyville, KS, and a graduate of Western University in Quindaro, KS, was choral director for the American...

Dr. Michael Charles was inspired to write this haunting song the night Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Charles was the Dean of...

Learn the about the nearly lost Legacy and major musical influence of historic Western University, first Black College west of the...

Film Premiere at Church of the Resurrection February 27, 2023 @ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 5001 W 137th Street Leawood, KS 66224 United States...

Nora Holt (born Lena Douglas in Kansas City in 1885) was an extraordinary musical artist who graduated valedictorian from Western...

From the turn of the 20th Century through the 1960s and 1970s Black gospel blues gave voice to a people living in troubled times....

The Kansas City Boys Choir and Kansas City Girls Choir perform the spiritual "Steal Away" at the foot of the John Brown statue, which is...